Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Mr. Vernon Munroe has put his finger on most of the obvious faults of your program for the Tutorial System, permit me to add my protest against your sadistic inclination to more and more discipline...
...addition to having fewer taxes to absorb, biscuit bakers and packaged food concerns will probably gain from bigger volume at lower prices. Last year their attempts to pass the tax on to the consumers made many customers so mad that they organized "buyers' strikes." Starting as a protest against the high price of meat, these strikes were ultimately directed against nearly all high-priced groceries. Last week such users of grains as distillers and corn refiners were considering passing on to the public some of the tax saving...
Geneva saw prospects that all 62 nations that comprise the International Red Cross would unite in an official protest. "If this keeps up," cried one League official, "the Red Cross will no longer be an emblem of mercy but an emblem of Death...
...Year to stately Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the editor of the Saturday Evening Post. During 1935 busy Mrs. Lorimer helped return grand opera to Philadelphia, sponsored charities, presided over the Republican Women of Pennsylvania, led the Republican Women of Philadelphia in a threat to plant protest potatoes on their front lawns (TIME...
...strength of a protest from Notre Dame's Father John O'Hara, Professor Owen apologized, "if any statement of mine is untrue." To newshawks he observed: "Keep your eye on that 'if.' " For the next day's papers. Professor Owen waded into the Rose Bowl game, which he characterized as a $1,000,000 "racket...