Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press, liberal and conservative, entered indignant protest against Terre Haute's blatant violation of the Constitutional Bill of Rights. For such critics, Terre Haute's Republican Mayor Sam Beecher was ready with an answer. Said he: "Both of the major party Presidential candidates-Mr. Landon and Mr. Roosevelt-recognize Communism as a menace to this nation. Therefore, Communistic speakers are not welcome in Terre Haute...
When Young Communist Leaguers organized a protest outside the First Voters' headquarters during the show's performance, the First Voters' Director Alfred Lilienthal declared: "This is further definite proof that Mr. Roosevelt is being supported by the Communist Party...
...Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Palestine, and the arrival at Haifa of a thousand British troops daily, there began with a vengeance the British Government's "mopping-up campaign" against Arabs who five months ago declared a general strike and began raising Ned in general to protest against Jewish immigration. In a brisk clash last week near Jenin between Arab citizens and British land & air forces, 53 Arabs and one British soldier were killed. All over the country Arabs were arrested, charged with carrying firearms & throwing bombs...
...Scripps-Howard chain, followed this with front-page pictures six inches high of Queen Mary and Mrs. Simpson side by side-the Scripps-Howard story being that Her Majesty "disapproves of the King's open friendship for American-born" Mrs. Simpson and has taken up an attitude of "protest...
...disclaim. Cracked he: "As the public and responsible teacher of morality in this community I cannot let pass statements attributed to Father Coughlin in the daily press. When Father Coughlin says, within the limits of this diocese, that he advocates the use of bullets . . . I must on moral grounds protest and condemn such a statement. . . . I must condemn the statement which seems clearly to say that Mr. Roosevelt is anti-God. . . . I hope that on consideration he will retract...