Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before Governor Earle withdrew martial law, a Johnstown "Citizens' Committee" & a "Steel Workers Committee" inserted in some 40 newspapers a full-page advertisement captioned WE PROTEST. Relating that the closing of the Bethlehem plant was costing the community $500,000 in weekly payrolls, the advertisement thundered: "It is no part of the functions of American Government to force-or to permit anyone else to force-the individual worker into surrendering his Constitutional rights. . . . If this can happen in Johnstown it can happen anywhere else...
...this would mean hiring enough extra hotel servants to bankrupt the industry. At latest reports, tourists in France were still enjoying every hotel comfort, but the hotel operators threatened through their association to stage a nation-wide lockout of hotel workers for at least 24 hours, to emphasize their protest...
...twelve balloons from five nations. Like monstrous dirty soap bubbles, they drifted up from Brussels toward Germany. Two days later all had jolted to earth with Poland's Polonia II and Belgium's Belgica farthest (both about 870 mi.) from the start. But Germany hotly filed a protest and a demand that the race be run over, claiming that Czechoslovakian planes had forced down two of the three German balloons. Czechoslovakia replied that its pilots were merely waving at the balloonists, who misunderstood the gesture as an order to descend. Germany retorted that the pilots waved pistols...
...Governor promptly ordered the Cambria works shut down "until further notice." Hopping mad, President Grace sent a sizzling protest to the Governor, warning that "the responsibility for the great losses which our employes, their families and this company and its stock-holders are bound to suffer . . . will be upon you and the Commonwealth." Smoke continued to belch from the stacks of the Cambria works...
...General Lee has been elected president or rector of Lexington College .... We protest against the notion that he is a good instructor for youth or that he is fit to be put at the head of a college in a country situated in Virginia. A man who can do what he has done, take arms for a cause which nothing but his intellectual approval could justify his serving but which his intellect condemned is hardly a fit person either to train or to 'influence' young men. No amount of good talk now or hereafter about the 'duty of the citizen...