Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Counsel Pecora called Junior Partner Thomas Stillwell Lament to the stand and began to quiz him on personal year-end stock sales, presumably for tax deduction purposes, Lawyer Davis came to his feet in protest, forced the question of personal stock transactions into executive session...
Sirs: I cannot let pass without protest the feminine reaction to the New York alimony law which is revealed by the letters in your May 22 issue. It is hard to believe that this attitude is typical of modern American women. Surely there are others besides myself who look on marriage not as a perpetual meal ticket, but rather as a mutual contract in which each party agrees to contribute to the common good. Except for those cases where a woman continues her contribution even after divorce in the form of caring for her former husband's children...
There will be no such delay if French taxpayers have their way. Protests at the unbalanced budget poured into Paris from all quarters last week. The National Committee of Economic Understanding called upon all Paris shops to close for a half-day in protest. Wrote the sober Temps, even before the Chamber increased the deficit...
...rebels, he found it easier ?o shoot and hang any suspected person he could lay hands on. Such last fortnight were three guards of a U. S.-owned sugar mill at Jatibonico. Ortiz had them slaughtered on suspicion. The company's vice president posted off to Havana to protest to U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles. Soon Ortiz followed, talked with officials and flew back to the Santa Clara front...
None of this pleased Hitler. Last week the first repercussion to the scene at the landing field came with a sharp protest from Hitler to Dollfuss. Without delay Dollfuss snapped back that Hitler's man would do well to apologize for the "Turk"' speech in Vienna before Austria could reconsider its brusqueness to him. Police caught up with Frank and friends, busy on a haranguing tour of Austrian Nazi groups. They were told to leave Austria "rapidly." Then Dollfuss ordered 100 other German Nazis deported. He had already had 2,380 Austrian Nazis arrested for bombarding the Heimwehr...