Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kindly old Wilhelm Miklas had resigned as President of Austria in protest against the shelling of the workers' apartment houses a fortnight...
When President Roosevelt urged Congress yesterday to relinquish the naval bases in the Philippine Islands, he was taking the first step towards granting them a satisfactory independence. The sugar tariffs imminent on autonomy will probably raise protest from Philippine capital, but there is no possible doubt that if they are to leave our control, they must accept the same treatment as any other foreign nation. Imperialists in this country will decry the losing of our Far East naval bases. They will claim that such action makes a possible Japanese attack probable. While there is some truth in their fears...
...members of the Society of Independent Artists declared a boycott. The Rockefellers were accused of "cultural vandalism," of "murder with malice aforethought." The American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers (membership: 90) joined the boycott, declaring: "The Rockefeller family had no moral right. . . ." Radical Suzanne La Follette called a protest mass meeting, rallied critics as well as artists. In Mexico City Painter Rivera declared: "My object was attained when the painting was destroyed. I thank the Rockefellers for its destruction because the act will advance the cause of the labor revolution...
...From appeals to the rights of man as stated in the Constitution to tearful notes to General Johnson claiming that such legislation would put almost a million men out of work, their speciousness saw no bounds. The harmonious swinishness of the quack doctors never saw better proof than their protest against legislation which should prove a blessing to the honest members of the drug trade...
...armed with rifles promptly swooped down on a dozen Socialist headquarters, occupied and guarded the offices of the Arbeiter Zeitung and announced that they had uncovered evidence of heinous plots and enough bombs to wreck a good section of the city. The Farmers' Party sent a vigorous protest which was promptly suppressed. When Chancellor Dollfuss reappeared in Vienna, he was ready at last to commit himself. Assured of French support (see p. 16), he boldly called the Socialists by their Heimwehr tag, "Marxist-Bolshevists," patted the Heimwehr on the back for "demanding the rapid execution of my program...