Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rodman, founder and former editor of The Harkness Hoot, literate, insurgent Yale undergraduate magazine; and Charles C. Nicolet. able newsman who quit the New York World-Telegram to assist them. Deriving its name from Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet. Common Sense promised to "stand on a platform of protest, and present a forward-looking program...
...Protest was crudely but plainly indicated in the cover design, labeled "Saint Andy of Pittsburgh." It showed a cadaverous, ansel-winged Andrew Mellon against a red sky, plucking a harp above a sordid panorama of smoking mill chimneys, squalid shacks, starved workers, silk-hatted bankers slipping money to corrupt politicians. This illustrated W'riter Liggett's leading, lengthy article: "Mr. Mellon's Pittsburgh-Symbol of Corruption." Other features: "News Behind The News," a querulous "debunking" of the fortnight's political and economic news; "Children Are Starving" by one Lillian Symes; political pin-sticking by Robert...
...such as the American Legion and Daughters of the American Revolution, which cannot be said for all American universities. It has developed a tradition of 'multanimity,' or many-mindedness, which is growing stronger constantly while students in universities in New York city are forced to hold mass meetings in protest against restrictions on free expression of undergraduate opinion. The Conference on Students' Rights which met last Monday in New York City is the outgrowth of a type of administrative control which some schools have attempted, in an effort to allay radicalism, from which Harvard is entirely free...
...British of this that they invited no Burmese to last week's third and final Conference. Just as the delegates assembled, however, cables from Rangoon announced that the Burmese Anti-Secession Party leader, eminent Dr. B. A. Maw, had won the Burmese General Election and emphasized his protest by refusing to become Premier at the invitation of Governor Sir Charles Alexander Innes...
ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE CIRCUS QUEEN?Anthony Abbott?Covici, Friede ($2). Though Thatcher Colt alone smells murder on the flying rings under Madison Square's big top, the D. A. makes no protest, even when a pact is made with the old Ubangi witch doctor. Dark basement scenes?throat slitting?and a few nice weapons for the crime museum...