Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lectures and reading by making Professor De Wulf's book on mediaeval philosophy a possible choice for the reading period, and a graduate seminar is being planned for next year. But when courses are devoted to Kant, Leibniz, and Spinoza, the mediaeval student has a right to protest the lack of a course on a philosophy which was not, as these were, splendid digressions, but a common intellectual achievement unrivalled in its vitality and magnificence...
Senator Capper, knowing his cause was hopeless, made no protest...
...such political riots only one prisoner, out of a batch of more than 200, was held in jail on the day after arrest. He said he was a U. S. citizen, Joseph Klustik, 20, of Uniontown, Pa. Police held him as a vagrant, lent a sympathetic ear to his protest: "I was just standing there. I didn't hit anybody or do anything...
...Rockefeller methods. Then the opinion came from a capitalist who is almost as old as John D. Sr., and almost as philanthropic, who also found his fortune beneath the earth (zinc) and also ploughed a large part of it into midtown Manhattan. Pink-cheeked little August Heckscher put his protest in the form of a $10,000,000 suit against Rockefeller Center Corp., its officers, directors, backers and builders...
...deference to Congressional protest, the President has consented to dilute the autocracy of General Johnson by making his decisions reviewable by the Federal Trade Commission. Of course the leaders of the protest, ranging over so many phases of opinion, were divided in their reaction to the President's compromise. Many are frankly opposed to the intervention of the government in industry, and their dislike of General Johnson does not spring from a dislike of autocracy, but a dislike of the power which his particular autocracy exercises. Another group, the spiritual followers of Lord Hewart, the writers of angry books...