Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been so quickly dispersed. Hindenburg would probably agree with Hitler in his disgust for Communism, and as a Teuton would always cherish a secret dalliance with the idea of baiting Jews, but one is inclined to think that if he were still whole, he would rise in vigorous protest against the Nazis' ignorant and irritating foreign policy. Hindenburg may have been a general, and as a general might not have felt the private's horror for the carnality of conflict, but he was also a diplomat, and a stiff necked one, and thus privy to the disadvantages of negotiating...
...university centre in the U. S." Last week both were joined with seven other Chicago institutions in offering help to 3,600 one-time students of the city's Crane Junior College, closed for economy. They will permit the students to pay their tuition in instalments. Ostensibly in protest against school economies, 1,000 Chicago high school pupils went briefly on strike last week...
...good works. With it went a letter from a stockholders' committee, asking for proxies for a special stockholders' meeting in October. Mr. Holmes swore that he was not trying to regain the Texaco throne but only desired election of twelve additional directors. Mr. Holmes openly protested that Texaco had too long been dominated by the Lapham family who had three of the 13 seats - John H. ("Jack") Lapham and his cousin Henry G. Lapham and a Lapham nominee. Albert Rockwell. Seven directors are company executives. "No strong man, or any one above the average, has ever survived...
...Southern hinds whose consciences permit the grandfather clauses and the Jim Crow laws, and they are now in full and stupid cry against Judge Lowell. The Crawford decision was outstanding as an example of judicial realism of the most clear and intelligent kind, and is unconstitutional only in protest against an unconstitutionality stupendous in its arrogance and mad in its implications. But more interesting, perhaps, than the fate of any one jurist is the whole problem of the redefinition of constitutionality which will face the ten old men in October. Balancing the Crawford case and the judicial act will...
...above Tammany men's salaries, for relief of the city's unemployed. In July a special session of the New York Legislature had been called to give the city special taxing powers for the emergency. The tycoons of finance were present in the City Hall to protest four drastic taxes which Financial Counselor Untermyer was about to clamp upon them...