Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Standard Oil, aviation stockholders would pay, for with air contracts canceled the value of their stock tobogganned in all markets. Many an observer wondered last week whether the President had not made a political misstep. The President was put in an uncomfortable position when Colonel Lindbergh wired him a protest that commanded the attention of the country. This criticism touched a tender White House spot. Stephen T. Early, the President's second assistant secretary, met it with a double-barreled reply. One barrel went off with a smart bang: Colonel Lindbergh, famed for his Press-shyness, had deliberately sought...
Yesterday morning Harvard students awoke to find a warning against war in their mail boxes, in the form of a circular letter sent around by the National Students League. The letter was a protest against the War Department's National Defense Week--"a campaign of the foulest lingism well-larded with the usual pacifistic phrases...
When Mr. Roosevelt first began to devaluate the dollar a great howl was immediately raised by newspapers, particularly in the East, and it appeared as if public opinion was against the President. Since that time, however, the storm of protest has subsided as rapidly as it started. The obvious inference is that the public were not antagonistic to the President at all, and that sentiment was misrepresented by the newspapers, and by the wealthy class who seized upon the devaluation policy as an excuse for attacking the whole Recovery programme. Precisely the same tactics are being used by the same...
...opinions expressed in your column, "Yesterday", ridiculing Colonel Lindbergh, and his respectful protest to the president against condemning aviation companies without a proper hearing, were it seems to me in extremely poor taste...
...everyone was as pleased with the new Radio Playhouse as were CBS officials and their first night guests. Manhattan theatre folk regarded it as an invasion of their domain, denounced the policy of free admission as unfair competition. Indignant theatre managers named a committee to protest...