Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reds of the Greek trade unions had declared a 24-hour general strike effective at midnight. Against this the General Confederation of Labor in Greece had declared their formal opposition. The strike was supposed to be in protest against a royal decree under which in Greece arbitration of all labor disputes has now been made compulsory. Just before midnight Premier Metaxas successfully scotched a strike by proclaiming martial law throughout Greece. Parliament was dissolved, the Cabinet omitting to proclaim when elections would take place. Liberals felt that King George had, by signing the necessary papers, made General Metaxas his Dictator...
...millionaire's daughter who was saved from something worse than death by staying home to practice on her piano. Retail association heads exhort the trade to avoid competitive squabbles. Thundered NAMM's President Alfred D. LaMotte in the convention issue of Piano Trade Magazine: "I protest most vigorously any implication that there is any real competition between pianos and piccolos, accordions and ocarinas or harmonicas and harps." Pianos. In 1935 about $60,000,000 worth of musical instruments were sold in the U. S., largest slice of which (some $35,000,000) went as usual to the piano...
...only been trying to shoot himself, and the official London police account recorded that he was heard shouting when overpowered, "I wanted to shoot myself in front of the King." It appeared from the herbalist's papers that whatever he meant to do was intended as a protest against the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who in the House of Commons last week was called a "liar" by four...
...Hearing that the rebellious pastors of the German Evangelical [Lutheran] Church plan to print and circulate privately their unanswered protest to the Reichsführer against practically everything going on in Nazi Germany (TIME, July 27), the Gestapo (secret police) raided Confessional Synod offices, lugged off typewriters, mimeograph and printing machines...
Chinese censorship will rigidly suppress the facts and Chinese consuls abroad will loudly protest rumors, but what Canton, Shanghai and Nanking were saying last week boiled down to this: 1) General Chen took "silver bullets" from the Japanese and bought a good many lead bullets as a gesture to bring himself seriously to the notice of Nanking. 2) He then accepted "silver bullets" not to fight Nanking, which considered this a good investment as it thought he would never get away with the $30,000,000 in "small money" which would thus fall to them. 3) General Chen was shaken...