Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply, famed Rev. John Haynes Holmes (no relation to lynchee) was only one of hundreds to protest. Said Dr. Holmes: "Governor Rolph's statement . . . constitutes the crowning disgrace of the whole ghastly history of lynching in America...
...Governor Ritchie to apprehend the lynchers of George Armwood who was hanged last month after raping an old white woman. They seized four suspects, placed them in the guard room of the armory at Salisbury. When a crowd of 400 angry citizens gathered outside the armory to protest the arrest, cry for the impeachment of Governor Ritchie, militiamen threw tear...
...protest against the approval by the CRIMSON of lynching as an expedient of justice, as just shown in California, we wish to voice the indignation of a group in the University that is opposed to this attitude. In order to make this protest effective, we would like to obtain the signatures to the following letter of all those who pride themselves on still being human. The letter will be posted on the bulletin boards of the various houses and at the Union: Harvard University Cambridge Mass. November...
...wanted to supercharge his boats, but Gold Cup rules forbade. Lately at a meeting of the Gold Cup Contest Board, by means of family proxies Mr. Dodge won a vote approving superchargers for next year's Gold Cup race at Lake George, N. Y., over the bitter protest of other contestants. Last week A. P. B. A. was sympathetic but firm. The Gold Cup's deed of gift forbids major changes in contest rules after a challenge has been filed. But A. P. B. A. voted to approve superchargers for 1935. Since Mr. Dodge had hoped...
That night, despite a fever of 104, Mr. Ringling was put in a wheelchair and brought to another room. Over the protest of his nurse he signed papers which gave most of his assets to New York Investors. Later he learned that swift Mr. Greve had formed a voting trust to hold the Ringling stocks and manage the circuses, another trust to hold some of the Titians, Rembrandts, Hals, Rubens from his famed collection in Sarasota, Fla. Mr. Ringling was left with nothing. But he was one of the five voting trustees, and as soon as he could...