Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strikes and getting union men back to work as it was in creating new jobs for the unemployed. The coal strike hinged directly on the coal code which required the President's direct intervention (see p. 11). In the East 50,000 silk workers went on strike in protest against lumping their trade with cotton and rayon for code purposes...
First big strike of the NRA occurred last July in the same Pennsylvania coal fields (TIME, Aug. 7 et seq.). Starting in Fayette County, 50,000 miners walked out in protest against the operators' refusal to recognize John Llewellyn Lewis' United Mine Workers. Riot, bloodshed and death preceded Governor Pinchot's declaration of martial law and his dispatch of guardsmen. A temporary peace was patched up when President Roosevelt sent Deputy Administrator McGrady into the coal fields as his personal emissary to promise the strikers a square deal under NRA. With mining resumed, coal code negotiations...
Radio took the injunction without loud protest, proceeded to gather its own news as it saw fit. NBC and Columbia publicity staffs both are manned by seasoned newshawks. NBC's smart Vice President Frank Earl Mason, onetime president of Hearst's International News Service, applied wire service methods to the long distance telephone, got fast, adequate coverage of big news for his chain. Columbia went at it somewhat more elaborately, organized a system of correspondents in the 90 cities dotted by CBS stations...
...help along the NRA drive. ¶ President Roosevelt got a business letter last week from the son of President Cleveland. As counsel for the Individual Brand Petroleum Association, Richard Folsom ("Dick") Cleveland, famed for the great revolt he led against the Princeton Club system two decades ago wrote to protest NRA's price-fixing for oil which would tend to put out of business his clients, small independent gasoline station owners in 26 states...
...third race and seemed to be on the last tack to retaining his championship when the race committee reached a highly controversial decision: to disqualify Fink in the second race, in which he had finished sixth, for fouling Paul Shields's Gull. Shields had lodged no protest; the boats had not collided. Nonetheless, the committee said that Fink had crossed Shields at a marker and forced him to luff...