Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks newspapermen have grumbled at the price this official put upon his good nature. Last week Governor Moore strongly rebuked him for accepting "donations" from newshawks at the standard rate of $10 for a downstairs seat or $5 for an upstairs seat at the trial. Sheriff Curtiss righteously protested that the "donations" were to be used for "fixing up" the courthouse for the trial. The Governor took the starch out of this protest by revealing that New Jersey had already appropriated $15,000 to cover all trial expenses, would appropriate more if needed...
...your issue of Dec. 10 there is an article on religion in which that able and distinguished theologian, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, in his discourse on the subject speaks disparagingly of its powers-"For it lifts up its voice, but only to protest. It cannot command." . . . It is quite evident that Dr. Schweitzer is not cognizant of recent religious activities in the U. S. I refer, in particular, to the Legion of Decency recently organized by the Catholic Church...
...prophecy. In 1932 he was reelected. His career as Attorney General made news in Texas. For years Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. had succeeded in avoiding all efforts to raise its taxes because the county commissioners who assessed its property obligingly postponed hearings whenever the Attorney General came to protest, held the hearings when no protester was at hand. Night be fore a scheduled hearing, Allred drove to the neighborhood of the county seat, slept in his car, drove into town just as the hear ing opened in the morning, made himself heard...
Busy preserving this fiction last week were a U. S. and a British consul. In Hsinking, raw boomtown capital of the puppet Empire, they called upon Manchukuoan officials presumably to protest against Manchukuo's confiscatory oil monopoly (TIME, Nov. 5), treated them as persons, not as officials of unrecognized Manchukuo...
Things trouble him. In protest against his boss's fondness for locking doors and tearing down office partitions, he distrib uted among his friends a secret supply of pass keys to The New Yorker offices. Once he held a noise-making contest with carpenters and plasterers by rolling metal trash baskets up & down corridors. Stenographers still remember the day when James Thurber powdered his face white, upset the telephone booth, climbed into it, pretended he was a corpse in a coffin...