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Word: protest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning as harmless a bit of Gilbertian whimsy as was ever conceived by Princeton minds, the movement has suddenly turned serious, to the surprise of every one including its founders. With the promise of Representative Maverick to introduce their bill into Congress and the humorless protest of the Gold Star Mothers, childish things have been put aside, and the Veterans of Future Wars become full-fledged lobbyists in their own right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOMORROW WE DIE | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Last week U. S. Citizen Simonds radioed ahead to Manila for an armed guard to meet him and his wife at the pier. When the Reliance docked, he went ashore behind four policemen to protest to U. S. High Commissioner Frank Murphy, took rooms at a Manila hotel. To newshawks he said: "One of my German friends who openly sympathized with me was attacked and beaten. I feared they would attack us. ... The officers and members of the ship's crew, however, treated us fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Patriots on Tour | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...have been the end of Old Ludwig except that the Australian Labor Party is theoretically opposed to capital punishment and is actually and vehemently an enemy of black men because they are a source of cheap labor. Labor members of the Australian House of Representatives ignited a blaze of protest against the execution of Old Ludwig. To Labor the ''Sane Government" coalition of Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons replied that capital punishment is Australia's law, sharply adding that Labor seemed to want one law for blacks, another for whites. Finally the Government Ministers pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW GUINEA: Old Ludwig | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...Captain Fleischer dismissed all three accusations as "trivial." His chief counsel, white-mopped, beetling-browed Samuel Tilden Ansell, whose $500,000 libel suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long (TIME, April 24, 1933) was settled by the latter's assassination, asked for a postponement until President Roosevelt answered his protest against the "prejudicial attitude of the court." The court denied the request. The President sent no reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Icebox Raider | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...victim last week to the sinister power that is sour milk. Science, with all its starry array of meat-choppers, lemon-peelers, and assembly lines for manufacturing potatoes an gratin, had no way to tell of the fallibility of the bovine world till the crescendo of sensitive student's protest reached a revolutionary shout. A system so mechanically perfect, yet so hard and insensitive to the demands of the taste buds, has lived too long with the muse of science, and needs a bit of rejuvenation along more humane lines. Harvard's great lack today is an official taster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF TASTE | 3/26/1936 | See Source »

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