Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...packing back to Moscow. Packing back to Berlin with the fervent curses of the Bolsheviks in his ears would then be sent Ambassador Graf Friedrich von der Schulenburg, an exasperatingly bland German. No matter what insults Soviet newsorgans hurl at Hitler week after week, Schulenburg is never instructed to protest, turns up smiling at Bolshevik receptions, refuses to let Communists get his goat...
...dared to make a medical statement were Dr. Morris Fishbein, A. M. A. publicist, and Chemist Paul Nicholas Leech, director of the A. M. A.'s chemical laboratories. Chemist Leech whipped off a telegram to President Edward Bartow of the American Chemical Society, and rushed to Pittsburgh to protest in person. The Leech telegram: "Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and I join in protest to the American Chemical Society against the use of its agency in aiding the premature and unethical exploitation of this proprietary. . . . May we suggest that proper officials remove...
...Kane fired back at the monoplane nine rounds from her anti-aircraft gun. All nine rounds also went wild. At once the U. S. Press went wild with screaming headlines. From Rapid City, S. Dak., where he received the news, President Roosevelt ordered Secretary of State Hull to "protest." Taking a chance that the monoplane was Spanish, but unable even to guess from which side of the Spanish civil war it came, good grey Mr. Hull announced that "both sides" would be asked to instruct their airmen in "strongest terms" not to do this sort of thing...
...Seattle, however, Publisher Hearst's Post-Intelligencer did not appear on newsstands at all last week. When local members of the Guild struck there fortnight ago to protest the discharge of two old-time P.I. staffmen who had been active in the Guild, the typographical workers elaborately explained that they dared not risk their necks passing through the picket lines, stayed away also. Under Labor Boss Dave Beck, moving force of Seattle's Central Labor Council, a cordon of demonstrators from the American Federation of Teachers (see p. 35) and the Teamsters', Lumbermen's and Longshoremen...
...lands, turned them over to hard, thieving Argote, political boss in the days before Alfonso abdicated, who grafted, plotted, had Anarchist troublemakers killed. When the olive-pickers stormed the groves in a dispute about wages, the punishment was drastic: 80 men were arrested by the Civil Guard. When a protest meeting was held it was fired on, and 24 were killed. The aged Marquis woke up too late to a realization of his overseer's villainy and his own neglect, fled his estate. Caro married Lucia after her child was born, took her with him when he went...