Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that in transmitting this executive order at this late hour, I have had no thought of taking what might he considered an advantage of Congress." But the Senate thought that the President was taking an advantage and promptly exploded. California's Johnson leaped to his feet in hot protest. Why, there weren't even printed copies of the President's order for Senators! Wisconsin's La Follette and Idaho's Borah, who never want to go home, joined the fray. Pennsylvania's Reed called the President's action a "contemptuous gesture." Shouted Missouri...
...against Jewish musicians in Germany. Two months ago when Bruno Walter was forbidden to conduct in Leipzig and Berlin, when Conductor Otto Klemperer was pommeled by a band of Nazi youths and Soprano Frida Leider had her Bayreuth invitation recalled, Toscanini joined ten other eminent musicians in cabling a protest to Hitler (TIME, April 10). The protest was ignored but the musicians who signed it had their phonograph records and radio broadcasts banned from Germany. And able Otto Klemperer was ousted from the Berlin State Opera where he had a contract until...
Last year's plan proved most disastrous for the Senior class, inasmuch as the Comptroller of the University decided, after protest from an indignant group of undergraduates, that to keep students from occupying rooms they had paid for was illegal. As a result, the class of '32 was unexpectedly compelled to act as host for nearly a hundred uninvited guests. The present graduating class, therefore, may have remembered the disaster of their predecessors in caps and gowns, when they agreed to admit their younger fellows to the fold. This plan is noteworthy in that it disposes of an embarrassing situation...
...full of shrapnel splinters. "A hopeless cripple," pronounced Dr. Hatfield, "and his allowance is to be cut from $120 to $80 per month." Pennsylvania's Reed told of a veteran with one leg shot off in battle who that very morning had hobbled into his office to protest a cut in his disability compensation from $100 to $40. Michigan's Vandenberg told of a veteran suffering with gunshot wounds in the back, hernia, arthritis and chronic nervousness who was about to lose $82 of his $90 monthly pension. "That means," cried Senator Vandenberg, "he'll get shot...
...solemnly protest with all our force against this law, asserting that it can never be appealed to against the imprescriptible rights of the Church. . . . We condemn the principle of suppression of the Church which the State already has sanctioned in the new Constitution as the most grievous error and the most lamentable result of the laicism or of the apostasy of present-day society which aims at separating itself from...