Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal promise in April of 1934 that all Public Works projects costing over $60,000 would be awarded to private architects. Last month President Ralph Thomas Walker of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects charged that this was not being done, sent official protest to every Congressional candidate from New York State listing 38 separate Federal building projects costing over $60,000 that were being designed in the Supervising Architect's office...
...Sent police and Mobile Guards against 20,000 furious French farmers who gathered at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and sang the Marseillaise in protest against Premier Flandin's decision to unpeg the French internal price of wheat. After the farmers had dispersed grumbling, the Government announced that within three months the price of wheat will be gradually unpegged, and French farmers will be obliged to report the area they intend to sow in wheat to the State which may curb any farmer who seems likely to raise over 100 quintals (367 bushels...
...intruder made no protest, manifesting a gallantry which is almost invariable in the male...
Budapest--Hungary sends sharp protest to Jugoslavia over mass deportations as breach of diplomatic relations nears...
...last week's end Community Chest contributions for the nation as a whole averaged 1% above last year's totals, were within 10% of those in 1929. But this year more than ever canvassers have met the stock protest: "Why should I give to private charity when I'm being taxed for government relief?" Stock answer: The Government supplies only life's bare necessities. On private charity still depend such important extras as character-building and leisure-time services, neighborhood centres, camps, guidance clinics, health bureaus...