Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That last week's bout ended in a riot was much less remarkable than the fact that it occurred at all. For the past six years, ever since onetime Champion Ed ("Strangler") Lewis filed a protest after a match with Henri De Glane which was considered justified by some state athletic commissions but not by others, there have been two or more claimants for the wrestling championship. Far from being deleterious to the sport, this state of affairs has contributed largely to its renaissance since 1929 by making it possible for each of several different troupes of wrestlers, operating...
Just the kind of publicity-making titbit the committee wanted was turned up by a York telegraph official who testified that one Charles E. Small, purported signer of a protesting telegram to Pennsylvania's Representative Haines, had been dead for two years. But two days later A. G. & E. got more & better publicity by producing a fresh letter from Charles E. Small to Representative Haines. Wrote Mr. Small, father-in-law of an A. G. & E. plant superintendent: "I wish you to know that I am the man that is supposed to be dead, who wrote you and wired...
Promotion. Not so uniformly satisfying to all parties however were the effects of the President's Solomonic decision. When Franklin Roosevelt nominated Lawrence William Cramer to succeed Dr. Pearson, Mr. Ickes joyfully announced, "I'm satisfied," but Senator Tydings rushed to the White House, if not to protest, then apparently for no purpose...
...Rubber Dollar") Warren, the only moneyman who sold a major theory to President Roosevelt but who is no longer a frequent White House caller.* Also on hand was Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the Treasury's hard money adviser, who quit his post in 1933 as a protest against the prevailing Warren theories. Another was Professor James Harvey Rogers, who lost caste in Washington for criticizing the Administration's silver policies. There was even a self-appointed New Deal economist, Britain's Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, prophet of coming U. S. booms...
...Waiting for Lefty (TIME, June 17). Short time later one Martin Halabian was clapped into jail as a suspicious character. Presently the clerk of the Chelsea court received a Western Union telegram from the New Theatre League of Manhattan. It read: "Our National Executive Committee, representing 300 theaters, vigorously protests action against Richard Frey and New Theater players and demands their immediate release." Not long afterward Judge Samuel R. Cutler of the same court received an unsigned Western Union telegram which read: "The 200 workers assembled at Workers' Center protest arrest of Halabian on trumped-up charges. Consider this...