Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desperate sense of humor, clutching at whatever pleasing it could find in the sullen array of 'social protest' and of drab 'American scene,' seems to have actuated the prize-awarding jurors. . . . The present show is largely invited and presumably is a carefully considered cross-section of American art as it is being produced in the studios of today. If so, then the proletarian gloom that hangs over our artists is becoming as thick as Stalin's Russian fog."-Clarence Joseph Bulliet in the Chicago Daily News...
Contrary to the open air anti-war strikes which will be held on Armistice Day, two days after this, at other colleges throughout the country, this evening and indoor affair will be local in character and will not call upon students to leave their classes as a protest against...
...committing atrocities in Ethiopia today are unfounded." Inasmuch as Belgium's very soul is rooted in the idea of German Wartime atrocities, the Belgian Government promptly instructed its Ambassador to Italy to ask the Italian Government for the exact text of the broadcast, as a preliminary to a protest...
Well primed was the Mayor last week when a representative of the United Parents Association appeared at City Hall to protest that school washrooms were shy on soap and towels. Blazed the Mayor: "Any time the Board of Education has the courage to cut out its rotten, dishonest custodian system, we'll be able to give the children what they need. Go to any principal and point out uncleanliness in a school and he'll turn pale and say 'My God, I can't help it. I have no power over the janitors.' I never...
...earnest but fastidious champion of academic freedom is James Bryant Conant. As president of Harvard he may turn down a Nazi's scholarship (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934) or protest a law requiring teachers to swear allegiance to Federal and State Constitutions (TIME, April 15). He may not involve the University in politics. Last week, therefore, Dr. Conant hurried home from a southern trip to quiet an equally earnest but less fastidious professor...