Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawled, "Give me your card. I don't say a word for less than 5,000 francs ($305). I have other bidders. I will let you know shortly. Au revoir." A certain Dr. Jamin of Chamonix complained : "I was the first to be called to attend Stavisky. I protest that I was not also called to testify at the inquest which pronounced him a suicide." In Bayonne the local Mayor, M. Joseph Garat, a Deputy of France arrested as an accomplice of Swindler Stavisky, sat in his cell shivering and disconsolate. One of his last acts as Mayor...
Sirs: Permit me, if you will, a founder subscriber to TIME, to offer my protest against the content of your article entitled "Recovery-NRActive" under the division of National Affairs on p. 9 of your issue...
Ordinarily an admirer of your tart journal, I should like to register a protest. ... I refer to a footnote concerning Lawrence Tibbett which was appended to an article headed "Concert Business" (TIME...
...check and countercheck the expenditure of Federal emergency appropriations, nor has Budget Director Douglas had power to plan their spending. The President announced in his message that on that day he was giving to Watchdogs McCarl & Douglas the power to supervise emergency as well as ordinary expenditures. But on protest of PWAdministrator Ickes that the growls of "unsympathetic" Mr. Douglas would impede allocations, the President withdrew...
...result of the University's action in advancing the closing hour to 6 o'clock, open protest was made to the authorities by several members of the University. A mass meeting held on the steps of Widener failed to change the new ruling. In fact, the leaders of the gathering were heckled continually during their speeches...