Word: protestation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...protest against the recent ruling of the Department of Labor restricting foreign students from securing employment in this country, a petition has just been forwarded to President Hoover by the Foreign Students Committee of Phillips Brooks House. The statement reads in part as follows...
...Foreign Student Committee of Phillips Brooks House, with the additional weight of its faculty advisory committee, has sent to President Hoover a firmly worded protest against the recent regulation of the Department of Labor limiting the employment of foreign students. As a question of controversy, the so-called Deak ruling, against which the protest has been filed, has already created noticeable stirrings in the press of the country...
During the two weeks since classes began there has been evident an increasing amount of dissatisfaction at the inconvenience caused by the closing of Widener Library at six o'clock every evening. The CRIMSON commented on this question in an editorial of September 23, but the continued protest against the Library policy justifies a restatement of the issues involved...
...Government. Grieved with what he considers persecution and what Mexican legislators call regulation, Pope Pius XI has watched in patience, hoping for peace chiefly through the truce arranged between Church and State by the late Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow. Last week Pius XI ceased to bide, uttered a sharp protest in the stately, tremulous latinity of a Papal encyclical headed Acerba animi ("bitterness of soul...
...faithful), Chiapas (one for 60,000) and Veracruz (one for 100,000). This "unheard-of persecution," exclaims Pius XI, "differs but little . . . from the one raging within the unhappy borders of Russia. . . ." What to do? The Holy Father counsels Mexican Catholics to obey the law but to protest unremittingly. "To approve such an iniquitous law or spontaneously to give to it true and proper co-operation is undoubtedly illicit and sacrilegious. But absolutely different is the case of him who yields to such unjust regulations solely against his will. . . . His behavior consequently is not much different from that...