Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like lumbermen, cattlemen and dairymen joined in the grumble and the National Grange in session at Sacramento voted a unanimous protest regardless of the fact that the reduced duty will apply only to relatively small quotas of cattle and cream imports. In Denver, Fernand E. Mollin, secretary of the American Livestock Association, declared that it did not matter how limited the tariff reduction was. Groaned he: "The damage is done! The precedent is established!" Senator McNary of Oregon Announced that he was leaving for Washington to lodge a protest with the President...
...such exceptional favors as permitting Soviet Ambassador Suritz to keep an apple-cheeked, 16-year-old scullery maid. Unprintable were the explosions of wrath in the Corps Diplomatique and consular services of foreign powers throughout Germany, but up to this week no Ambassador or Minister had been instructed to protest...
Please add my protest to those which you are receiving...
...England Congregational ministers entered solemn protest against accepting for foreign missions $100,000 of tainted "Trust" money from John D. Rockefeller. Throughout the U. S. husbands were joking about the super-hatpins which their wives were using to hold on monstrous sailor hats. Among best-selling books of the year were George Barr McCutcheon's Beverly of Graustark and Thomas Dixon's The Clansman. In Manhattan, George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession was closed by police, while audiences wept nightly at dainty Maude Adams in The Little Minister. Also in Manhattan, a crusading young...
...wording their letter of protest against the Baker appointment the members of the Bar Association expressed a hope which was too optimistic and a politeness and respect which His Excellency hardly deserves. Black may be white, and Mr. Baker may be Galahad fresh from the Table Round, as the Bar tactfully suggested, but public opinion has been quite definitely on the other side. One would, of course, like to think that the appointment is a case of "post hoc sed non propter hoc," and this thesis is just about as sincere as Mussolini's recent self-appointment as the Abraham...