Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Mather, "has demonstrated its ability to meet the requirements imposed by modern economic, industrial and financial affairs here in America. A new party, entirely independent of all existing political organizations, will presumably be born within the next few years. A vote for Norman Thomas is more than a protest against the present, political regime; it is a way of hastening the organization of a new, independent, progressive, party...
According to the protest filed by the Student Laundry, the Coop has reversed its laundry policy this year, and has borrowed without permission from the plaintiff, trade names, services, and methods of measuring charges. Among the methods borrowed are the "piece system" and "the dollar bundle", both of which systems were originated in the Square by the Students Laundry. The case comes under the heading "unfair competition," and the plaintiff's charges are based on the claim of property rights...
...active part in that campaign. I have always been confident that the estimate of one million Democratic votes cast for Mr. McKinley, in consequence of that Democratic protest against the soc dollar, was not exaggerated. I have never doubted that the defeat of Mr. Bryan was due to the presentation by Democrats of the incalculable loss to Labor from an unstable and unsound currency. The relation of such a shift of values in wages, as well as savings and investments, was readily appreciated by the industrial masses, so many of whom were continually remitting to their families in Europe...
...George Foster Peabody voted for Eugene Victor Debs, the Socialist nominee for President, as a protest against Taft's subservience to Big Business and Bryan's oratorical fanaticism. Last week, writing to the New York Times, Mr. Peabody urged anyone who could not vote for Hoover or Roosevelt not to vote for Norman Thomas and his diluted Marxism, but for William Z. Foster, the Communist candidate, ''whose success through a large vote really would shock the body politic...
...bootlegging, indicted in California for medical malpractice, that the license under which he was permitted to practice first in Arkansas, then in Kansas, was gotten through diplomas from a defunct, unrecognized school and a notorious "mill." But the State Attorney General's office was flooded with letters of protest when Dr. Brinkley's license was revoked in 1930. In 1930 the Federal Radio Com- mission refused to renew his license to operate KFKB on the grounds of "obscenity," Dr. Brinkley built a $350,000 station (XER) over the Texas border at Villa Acuna. Mexico. By remote control...