Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This has aroused southern and eastern European countries to protest against the "discrimination" of the Johnson bill. Citizens of foreign birth likewise protest against the exclusion of their countrymen. Politically this results in opposition to the bill from the representatives of urban districts such as New York, in which the foreign born population is largely concentrated. It also presents a problem to the Republican Party-the possibility of losing New York's electoral votes this year on account of the "foreign born vote." The Japanese Government has protested the provision of the new bill: "No alien ineligible to citizenship...
...physical ailments. The Premier's apparently strong position in the Chamber is due to a large number of Deputies, particularly those of the Radical Bloc, who refuse to cast their votes either for or against Poincaré's measures. In most cases this abstention is a protest against Poincaré's foreign policy or against his abuse of the parliamentary system. Actually Premier Poincaré's position in the Chamber is not at all solid and an imminent Government defeat is neither improbable nor impossible...
...German Ambassador to France was withdrawn on Jan. 10, 1923, as a protest against the occupation of the Ruhr. Dr. von Hoesch was left at Paris as Chargé d'Affaires...
...Separatists was hauled down by order of the Allies amid the indescribable joy and relief of the people, and the government of the area was placed in the hands of a Palatinate Kreistag Commitee. Great Britain, who, through ex-Foreign Minister Lord Curzon, was the first Nation to protest energetically against the Separatist activities, and who caused an Interallied Special Com-mission to be formed to study the Separatist question, was hailed by the Palatinate populace as their saviour...
...protest against the flagrant outrage done the Mother of God by recent widespread and blasphemous denials of the Virgin Birth of her Divine Son," Bishop McDevitt of Harrisburg, Pa., sang a solemn pontifical mass at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Manhattan. Archbishop Hayes presided...