Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal, as part of its general reform program, should open the air wider to them. The Federal Communications Commission took the question firmly in hand and proceeded, through a three-man board, to hold public hearings. Last week Radio's biggest wigs trooped to Washington to protest any plan which would force them to take into their broadcasting studios any specified number of preachers or pedagogs and permit them to hold forth, without charge, for any specified amount of time...
...University of West Virginia news leaked out that a Democratic Board of Governors was about to oust the University's President John Roscoe Turner, stanch Republican. Several hundred students walked out of classes in a noisy "one-day holiday" of protest...
...mass meeting, athletic authorities insisted that he should not play because 1) it would be discourteous to Georgia Tech; 2) he might be injured. Two hundred campus radicals threatened to prevent the game by standing in the middle of the field. The Ann Arbor Ministerial Association drew up a protest. Said the Michigan Daily: ". . . If the athletic department forgot it had Ward on its football team when it scheduled a game with Georgia Tech, it was astonishingly forgetful; ... if it was conscious of Ward's being on the team but scheduled the game anyway, it was extraordinarily stupid...
...police cordon in a car bearing an Augsburg license plate. Squads of mounted police clattered up to St. Matthew's Church, but the Bishop was already inside and in his pulpit. Few paid attention to what he actually said. The purport of the sermon was clear enough, a protest against government interference in religion. One phrase stuck. "Our church has been violated!" cried Bishop Hans Meisser...
...Yale three radical clubs addressed a long protest to President Angell. But there were only eleven antiFascists waiting outside University Dining Hall to chorus "A basso il Fascismo!" These the Italians proceeded to pummel into silence...