Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That did the trick. Foreign Minister Benito Mussolini, puffing with rage, sent the Italian Minister at Belgrade hot-footing around to the Jugoslavian Foreign Office with an official protest. Wrote the Giornale d'Italia...
...white Rainbow won the next four, it looked as though the Cup would stay in the U. S. for another year at least. But no one could be sure-not even Skipper Vanderbilt himself. As he finished ahead in that sixth race early this week, red flags of protest were run up on both ships to leave the series' outcome in doubt as spectators sat down to their Tuesday dinners. It was the second protested race of the contest. Not since 1895 had the America's Cup races been soiled by such embittered feeling, which promised to leave...
...postponed for a day while Endeavour got a new Genoa jib. Rainbow got the better start. Endeavour passed her on the first leg. Shortly after rounding the mark, Rainbow over-took Endeavour, went on to win by more than a minute. After the race, Skipper Sopwith filed a protest with the America's Cup Race Committee. He stated that Rainbow had committed one breach of rules before the start, which enabled her to get across the line first, and another after rounding the first mark, which had enabled her to regain the lead...
Endeavour had not flown her red protest flag until a few miles from the finish line. New York Yacht Club racing rules call for a protest flag to be displayed "promptly." On the complicated ground that, by not flying a protest flag immediately after the first foul, Endeavour had deprived Rainbow of a chance to enter a counterprotest, thereby preventing the Committee from disqualifying Endeavour in case it found Rainbow rather than Endeavour to be the injured party, the Race Committee refused to entertain the Sopwith protest. Mr. Sopwith kept silent until after...
Sixth Race. Before the start, Skipper Sopwith issued a statement indicating that he was by no means satisfied with the Race Committee's ruling on the first protest. Expressing "great disappointment" at the treatment he had received when the Committee failed to "take heed" of the "sailing tactics" of Skipper Vanderbilt, he intimated he would set sail from U. S. shores shortly after the series was over...