Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago German Ambassador Hans Luther marched into the State Department in Washington and slapped down a formal protest. In Manhattan the American Jewish Congress, the Assembly of Hebrew Orthodox Rabbis, the Federation of Palestine Jews, the Jewish Legion, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations. Young Judaea. Young Poale Zion and many other Semitic organizations were about to put Adolf Hitler on trial as an enemy to civilization. Was not such a proceeding an unfriendly act? Dr. Luther demanded. Undersecretary of State Phillips shrugged his well-tailored shoulders and retorted that free speech still exists in the U. S., that...
York Times from pay stations. "Cease hounding Mr. Insull! Mr. Insull's English friends will help him!" A few days prior the Greek Government had received a telegram of protest signed by a number of Britons. Reporters investigated the address and found a West End apartment house in which every flat was occupied by women...
Senorita Elida Dacunda flounced out into the broiling village plaza. In two minutes she had found her father. In five minutes he had gathered a mob. Father Dacunda rushed into the telegraph office, sent a protest to the Provincial Governor at nearby Corrientes, rushed out again. The mob retired to the cooler shadows on the edge of the square...
...sufficient to insure active participation in later life. To this end each Freshman was forced to play some game three times a week under faculty supervision. This arrangement may be desirable in theory but in practice it merely antagonizes the student and, as attested by the recent position of protest, becomes another of the unpleasant duties of the first year...
...courts and appeals, the job is not going to be done with the expedition that employed and unemployed labor are demanding; the first labor delegation said flatly that if this was the best that the government could do, it should stop pretending and remove its ban on a protest strike. The delegation did not suggest any other action by the Labor Board, for the very good reason that no other action is feasible. An administrative ban on the Weirton Company's practises, made by such a body as the Labor Board or the Federal Trade Commission, would be reviewable...