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Word: protestation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overwhelming vote of all its members, the History and Government departments have registered a protest with President Conant against the present 6 o'clock closing hour at the College Library, it was learned yesterday from reliable sources. The History Department was the first to register its petition for the restoration of the after-dinner hours abolished in the autumn of 1932, the Government Department shortly following suit with its own resolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO DEPARTMENTS PETITION CHANGE IN LIBRARY HOURS | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...Students in Politics in Washington, and although I had the supreme honor of meeting and talking to Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana, I was not taken into confidence when the Liberal Club sent a telegram to Senator Walsh asking for Long's expulsion. I would like to protest this move, not only because it was done in a dictatorial manner by two members of the Club, but also because it does not represent the views that some of us members hold on the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Platonic Kingfish | 1/5/1934 | See Source »

...reply to our protest wired Professor Tugwell and President Roosevelt, Tugwell wrote that he and the department regretted any damage caused us, and that a press dispatch had been immediately issued revealing the name and nature of the offending product, also stating in reference to our product Maybelline that ". . . we have never heard of any reports of injury caused by it." Considering that Maybelline has been used consistently every day by millions of women in all parts of the world for over 16 years, this last statement was indeed complete exoneration of our product. However, it did not reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 1, 1934 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...each chunk with knives, the priests poured red wine into the holes, after which Royalty and Priest drank the wine and kissed each other. According to Jugoslav Orthodox custom, Guests Boris and loanna thus became figuratively "of the same family" with Host Alexander and Hostess Marie. Too scandalized to protest was the Vatican, which protested vigorously but in vain when Rome's Catholic loanna was remarried in Sofia by an Orthodox priest and her first-born child was baptized Orthodox (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUGOSLAVIA: Royalties & Slava Cake | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...systems. His favorite occasion for making news is on returning from his Paris home or his estate in Pau where he is still Master of Fox Hounds. Early this year he gave ship reporters a blast on professors-in-Government (TIME, Feb. 13) that brought a blizzard of pedagogical protest. Last week on landing in New York aboard the Europa he triumphantly confirmed reports that he had bought a "substantial" interest in the great packing house of Armour &; Co. Asked how much, he curtly retorted: "It was enough to give me a hold on the company." Frederick Henry Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Prince in Armour | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

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