Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slap to have one of his underlings tell the Press that he really would not interfere with a technical appointment, that he merely liked to know who was appointed before the announcement was made. And as soon as the President returned Mr. Ickes went to the White House to protest the indignity which had been thrust on his Department...
...Cuban Telephone is not taking in enough money to meet its payroll. They added smugly that the operating deficit has thus far been met by funds which I. T. & T. has paid periodically from Manhattan, will now stop paying with alacrity. Said ex-Manager Hart for the record: "I protest most energetically against the Cuban Government's action, which despoils the company of its administration and deprives it of the legitimate enjoyment of its properties without legal basis, thus violating the constitutional laws which prohibit confiscation of property...
...demand for tinplate wherewith to can drought-stricken beasts. Rut darkest spot in all commodities was the price of hides, down from 6½¢ per lb. to 3½¢ in the past week, or 15% in six trading days, because the market was glutted by Government slaughtering. After strenuous protest from tanners, RFC last week agreed to advance $10,000,000 to hold surplus hides off the market until demand increases or they can be dumped abroad...
...protest that it is not freedom of the press to suppress or garble important news which happens not to be in accord with some editorial policy or opinion. , . . That is domination of the press and when it is practiced by a great chain of newspapers under one-man control it becomes a public menace.? ... I wish the newspapers would submit a code containing provisions which would leave elimination of such practices to their own self-governing bodies. They are the only industry that has declined...
...Saratoga chiropodist and church worker, who had requested him to remove the local commissioner of public safety, the district attorney and sheriff for their failure to clean up the town, Governor Herbert H. Lehman replied that he saw no need for executive action. When Miss St. John continued to protest, two men last week threw stink bombs through the window of her house...