Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city of Ponce, across the island from San Juan, Nationalists applied for a permit to parade as a protest against the imprisonment of eight of their leaders, including Chief Firebrand Pedro Albizu y Campos, who was sentenced to ten years in Atlanta penitentiary after conviction for sedition.* Mayor Ormes of Ponce issued a permit. Colonel Enrique de Orbeta, insular police chief, promptly canceled it. The Nationalists announced they would parade anyhow. The paraders came in contact with police near Pila Hospital in the heart of Ponce. A shot (fired by a Nationalist, according to police) broke the Sunday afternoon calm...
...Professor Prall and a leader of the English youth movement. In every way the meeting was a welcome contrast to the peace strikes sponsored in previous years by advocates of the olive branch at Harvard. It was orderly, calm, and drenched in the peaceful atmosphere most conducive to a protest for peace. On the other hand, the peace strikes of other years had been rendered futile by the ridicule and indifference of a Harvard community that considered the strike paradoxically militant. In 1935, the spring-feverish antics of Hitler-mustachioed students clad in boy scout uniforms easily outshone the vain...
...hand samples of the Nazi tirade, which he refused to release as too obscene for publication in the U. S. press, promptly replied that he had instructed U. S. Ambassador William E. Dodd to make "emphatic comment" to the German Government on its semi-official abuse. Milder than a "protest," diplomatic "comment" requires no reply by the offending Government...
...language of some of the German newspapers went, perhaps, beyond the desired limits, this was due only to irritation. An insult to the American nation was by no means intended." The German press, which had banner-headlined Secretary Hull's "very earnest" regrets in response to the German protest against Mayor LaGuardia's crack week before, ignored both U. S. protest and Nazi explanation. At the same time, however, the press did quit belaboring the U. S., becoming absorbed in the 40th anniversary as a soldier of Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg...
...Harvard Square Telegraph Office yesterday afternoon we witnessed a drama which seemed to sum up completely the struggle of the last vestiges of Puritanism against a newer and freer world, the protest of the sturdy native stock against the influx of "foreigners" brought in by the new educational policies of Harvard and Radcliffe...