Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jean Chiappe had many friends. Blue-caped policemen talked of a protest meeting in sympathy, and Minister of War Jean Fabry and Finance Minister Francois Piétri quit the Cabinet. There was more to their resignation than sympathy for Jean Chiappe. As representatives of the Right they had just been reprimanded by their respective parties for accepting posts in a Daladier Cabinet. Premier Daladier was forced to replace them with Paul-Boncour in the War office and Mayor Paul Marchandeau of Rheims at the Treasury. This put the same old coalition of Socialists and Radical-Socialists back in power...
...have their locks trimmed, saw that they remained alone in their own eating and living quarters. He charged the deputy warden with breaking almost every rule in the city's penological code, stripped Warden Joseph A. McCann of authority. Warden McCann's reaction was a feeble protest that, while Cleary was a "yellow rat," "Rao is the most valuable prisoner we have. Why, he's better than a deputy warden. When trouble developed, I could always go to Rao and get things quieted down...
Fortnight ago when funds began to run low and CWA began to taper off its work, a veritable storm of protest arose. Thousands of letters a day arrived at Mr. Hopkin's office protesting the ending...
...Five hundred cooks, waiters and bus boys had, by order of the Amalga mated Food Workers union, "folded arms." According to Mr. Boomer, at 5 p. m. a delegation of A. F. W. representatives, Left Wingers not connected with the A. F. of L., had waited on him to protest the pending dismissal of one of their number for incompetence. Mr. Boomer, who got his start in the hotel business rolling barrels around the basement of a Manhattan Beach hostelry 35 years ago, said he agreed to review the case. Then two hours later his restaurant staff struck with...
...seemed prostrate with a "spirit of defeatism." The delegates voted to start a coin-box campaign for "a penny-a-meal-for-missions." But raising money, no matter how much needed, by helping businessmen sell their products, they could not go. The C. & C. church club women voted their protest against "exploitation of the women of the churches" by the Goodwin Plan or any other...