Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizen of North Carolina and one who has had to do with the education of some thousands of girls in our grand old Commonwealth, and one of the 500,000 members of her different churches, may I protest against the arraignment of our Governor in the letter of Northrup Fowler of Amenia...
...Budapest, the police ruled that the Hungarian text of the famed Banana Song is immoral and must not be sung in public, ordered a jazz band in a popular cafe to cease playing the melody. The indignant musicians asserted that a melody cannot be immoral, filed a protest with the Department of the Interior...
...made," wrote McKenzie Moss, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. "Permit me to assure you of my concurrence in the expressions of regret that this unfortunate incident should have occurred," wrote Secretary of State Hughes. Thus did Uncle Sam address the Hungarian Legation at Washington-in reply to a protest from Count Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister-because an unwary prohibition agent committed a "violation of the domicile" of Andor de Hertelendy, Attaché of the Hungarion Legion. Nothing of an incriminating nature transpired...
Some of the radical Senators, elected to "protest," have naturally bewailed the farmers' sorry lot and urged legislation sundry and various. On the other hand, the Secretary of Agriculture's recent report (TIME, Dec. 31) was, except for the wheat belt, distinctly optimistic...
...thousand police assembled in the Royal Albert Hall, London, to protest against a lower wage proposal. The meeting attracted a good deal of interest because the Labor Party has been trying to get the police force unionized. Sir James Remnant, M.P., said to them: "For God's sake don't be mixed up in politics...