Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officials ever since they came to terms last month.* Late last week the worst outbreak of unauthorized sit-downs and walkouts to date shut nine G. M. plants in Flint and Pontiac, including the big Flint plant which makes all Chevrolet motors. A few of the strikes were in protest against discharge of union employes, but most were ostensibly called because rank & file hotheads felt they were not getting enough representation on shop committees, that their grievances were not being settled quickly enough. Thoroughly out of patience, G. M.'s Vice President Knudsen sent...
...peace and order should join hands with a view to the preservation of Canada's democratic institutions. I prefer to destroy the arguments of the communists by using better arguments; by showing that the doctrines of communists are false." "I have received," added Mr. Lapointe, "an avalanche of protests from Toronto communists against the expenditure of money to increase the Mounted Police force. They don't want Canada to have a militia force of any kind-but they protest against our efforts to prevent Canadians from enlisting in either of the rival forces now fighting in Spain. They...
...must protest your incomplete reporting on "Art" in the March 22 issue, or weren't all the returns in when you went to press? You make no mention of who won the other $700 prize given by the National Academy of Design, which went to Sidney Laufman of New York for the best landscape by an American born painter...
After signing, on March 7, the "round-robin" protest against the court change, Professor Griswold, participating in a symposium, decried the proposed judiciary legislation. Although he has been a constant opponent of court change, his sympathies have tended to agree with those of the minority of he court...
...dead of night by trusted Catholic motorists and motorcyclists. Secret police confiscated a few copies but on Palm Sunday priests and bishops throughout the Reich bravely mounted their pulpits, read to the faithful the Pope's blunt rejection of Nazi doctrines of "blood and soil" and his sharp protest at Nazi violations of the concordat which the Church "with grave misgivings" had ratified in 1933 (TIME, July...