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Word: protestation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Judge Wheat's court trooped attorneys for 134 of the nation's 149 Class I railroads, crying protest at what, to them, looked like a gross violation of the "due process of law" provision of the Constitution. The pension system would cost them $60,000,000 in its first year, more later. The extra burden, they declared, would break the back of many a tottering line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Pensions Out | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

After the War Prince Caetani was elected Mayor of Rome, refused to take office as a protest against civic corruption. Elected a Deputy, he was one of the first authentic Italian princes to rally to "The Prince," Benito Mussolini, months before the March on Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Prince's Prince | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...graduate and former football player of the days before the turn of the century. I wish to protest against the omission of the big drum from the parading between the halves of the football games. I have not missed a game this fall, and at no time has the drum, one of the band's showpieces, appeared after the start of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A drum, a drum, Macbeth doth come" | 11/3/1934 | See Source »

...telegram of protest was last night dispatched by the NSL to authorities of the University of California at Los Angeles, censuring the University's actions in suspending five students for alleged fostering of Communistic activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSL Protests Expulsion of Five UCLA Undergraduates | 11/1/1934 | See Source »

...committee approved-but it also seemed to approve the open shop. It favored "social insurance" but declined to recommend public ownership of utilities. "Economic planning," said the committee, "may reach a point at which liberty dies." Liberals in the House of Bishops could not let this pass without protest. Soon as Bishop Freeman finished reading it they clamored for the floor. Of those who got it before Presiding Bishop Perry called the session closed that day, none was more outraged than Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, California low churchman and Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Atlantic City (Cont'd) | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

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