Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself in a predicament he cannot understand. Diana Wynyard's cool and enigmatic smile gives an accent of high comedy to sequences which might otherwise have been childish. Good shot: Leonard, when he has drained a tumbler of Mr. Latimers whiskey, explaining that he has done so "under protest...
...Zveno Club came into being in 1928 soon after Lieut.-Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff resigned in protest as Minister of Railways in a politicians' Cabinet. Mild, bespectacled Colonel Gueorguieff and his Zveno friends did not like politicians. Loyal to popular, brave King Boris, they told him some time ago that they wanted to take the Government away from Premier Nicholas Mushanoff. Trying to be neutral toward the politics of his country, Boris tush-tushed them...
...telegraph business and Radio Corp.-had no code until last fortnight when, after months of wrangling, General Johnson threw the foursome a ready-made one which needed only the President's signature. Last week the telegraph and radio companies and their big customers had a last opportunity to protest against what may soon be the first code imposed by Executive order...
Western Union's President Roy Barton White, an oldtime railroad telegrapher who rose to run Central R.R. of New Jersey, had hung out the first bit of dirty linen by sending telegrams to his big customers, inviting them to protest and declaring that for all intents & purposes the President's Code was Postal's code. Bitterly he lashed the proposed fair practice clauses which minutely regulate leased wires, exclusive contracts and special services. At last week's hearings he thundered: "We strenuously object to injecting in the long-established rate arrangement . . . provisions which we know will...
...Western Union vice president dismissed as gross exaggerations reports that his company had sent out 10,000 telegrams, suggesting protest. But Deputy NRAdministrator Peebles said, he has seen copies of messages sent to customers whose telegraph bills did not exceed $2 per month. The vice president replied: "I cannot account for the indiscretions of subordinates...