Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While four British engineers protested in Soviet jails (see above), no protest was heard last week from 35 Soviet officials jailed at the same time on charges of sabotage. All were dead. Of the guilt of 34 there would have been some doubt in any but a Soviet Ogpu court. But on one, Vice Commissar for Agriculture Feodor M. Konar, Soviet justice was willing to go before the world...
Buenos Aires. At a protest meeting in Luna Park attended by nearly 20,000 people three Nazi sympathizers were severely beaten...
World Reaction-But it was too late. In the U. S. some 300 cities held protest meetings, the most important of which, in New York, was attended by almost everyone from Rabbi Stephen S. Wise to Bishop Manning and Alfred E. Smith. Rabbis throughout the country announced a day of fasting and prayer. Wholesalers cancelled-thousands of dollars worth of orders. The Europa announced that at least 25 steamship cancellations were due to Nazi terrorism. Other German lines admitted as many but claimed that the banking moratorium-had had more than a little to do with it. French & British importers...
...While protest meetings crackled, Edsel Ford went before the Detroit City Council with his Arts Commission budget. With him went Architect Albert Kahn, a fellow Institute director. The City Councilmen took the chance to lambaste the frescoes Mr. Ford had given Detroit. One called them a "travesty on the spirit of Detroit . . . and Mr. Ford's factories. . . . There is not a man there with a pleasant look or a smile. . . . The anatomical exhibitions . . . can't be sent through the mails." Messrs. Ford & Kahn made no reply...
...plan for bank-opening was proposed, dissected, discarded. But when the final decision was reached early last week, Detroit was in an uproar. Police Commissioner James K. Watkins led the opposition, crying: "Your city is being sold out from under your feet!" At his broadcast appeal, a flood of protest telegrams hit Washington, just as they had at almost every other proposal (TIME, March 27). Secretary of the Treasury Woodin asked Detroit's spellbinding radio priest, Father Charles Coughlin, to defend the plan.* More telegrams hit Washington, bringing the total to some 10,000, divided about equally for & against...