Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Progressivism at Washington even by observers not satisfied with the old parties, has been viewed as little more than a movement of protest. It has developed no single constructive issue which could be used as a nucleus for a third party; it calls for the highly unnatural union of the Wisconsin-Minnesota group, itself by no means homogeneous, and Borah and Johnson...
Such inconsistency is to be expected when the aims of the movement are altered from one session to the next. Its protest at one time takes the form of a bonus bloc, then of a farm bloc, and now a railroad bloc. The present phase, the railroad bloc, like those preceeding it, lacks unity as to personnel and policies. The Wisconsin-Minnesota group seems to predominate, huddled together behind La Follette who has produced no clear-cut plan for administering the railroads...
Opponents. Prominent objectors to birth control are less vocal than in the past, but the late Theodore Roosevelt's protest against "race suicide" is well known. Many churchmen are outspoken against the movement, as, for instance, Archbishops Mundelein of Chicago and Hayes of New York, Dr. John Roach Straton and other Catholic and Fundamentalist leaders. Justice John Ford of New York, John S. Sumner of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfield of New York and Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen of Chicago are other leading opponents...
...value of the road's property must be paid to the Government ; from such taxes a contingent fund is to be forced, to be loaned to weaker roads in case of need. About $96,000 has been recently paid in by 16 roads under this clause, although under protest. The validity of this clause is still being contested in the courts...
...Cooper may not be elected, but we nominate him as a protest against the rules...