Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week later): The Coroner in two days receives 500 telephone calls demanding an investigation, many a hot letter, "the greatest storm of public protest and public interest I have ever seen." Agents Kelly & Regan are haled before the Coroner's jury. An eyewitness testifies that after Mueller fell, Agent Kelly jumped on his legs & feet, Regan on his head; that the two men waited for the police only after heated persuasion by witnesses: that at the station house where Mueller was first taken he was cursed by policemen, buffeted about, refused medical treatment for an hour-and-a-half...
...cannot allow an injustice such as you have done Mr. Kelly to go unnoticed and without protest...
...nauseating. To the taxpayers of the country, it should be a warning of eventual national financial collapse. Only to the politicians is such a statement ''duck soup." If the men on WPA had been turned loose making automobiles, mining coal, or publishing news periodicals, the storm of protest would have been terrific, and the effort ended. Only in construction, the most disintegrated of all industries, could such an invasion of private industry be continued. We, in the industry, fight against its socialization...
...exasperation and a pain from first to last." When critics on the Evening News, the Manchester Guardian, the Star and the News Chronicle came out with adverse criticism of Cesare Formichi's singing in Falstaff, Covent Garden stopped sending them tickets. Even the Times was moved to protest the "disarrangement" of Orphée and Prince Igor, in which the Ballet Russe did not supplement the singers but stole the show from them. While Sir Thomas Beecham quietly prepared to leave London on a vacation, people gossiped that he would not renew his Covent Garden contract next year...
...time has come to protest against scenery and production which are an insult alike to the eye and to the intelligence and which only help to make ridiculous the action of the opera. How may the artistic conscience of the authorities of Covent Garden be stirred...