Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telegram received late Saturday night from H. E. Robbins '35, Harvard Freshman accompanying the student delegation investigating conditions in Kentucky, reads as follows: "Last night kidnapped trying to enter Kentucky but escaped in danger of life. Plan national protest. Conditions in Kentucky as described by its worst critics true. Am dead tired, no sleep for four nights. Morale wonderful of whole group...
...would not be pyramided on the retail public. Even if it were completely passed on to the consumer, which was unlikely, the $2,000-per-year man would have to pay only $15.75 more. The committee could find no other tax source which would yield money "with as little protest, as little annoyance and as little disturbance to business as a manufacturers' excise...
...United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan." The embargo was officially based on the discovery of San José scale, an infectious fruit scab, on recent shipments of apples and pears from the U. S. Plant-exporting China and Japan were too busy with their own troubles to protest. The fruitful Dominions took it quietly. But roars of protest rose from U. S. Chambers of Commerce. In the last two years U. S. apple-growers have sent over $3,000,000 worth of apples to France...
...state as well as federal taxation, which results in the diversion of capital from production to tax-free government securities. But these are minor points in the light of the dangers of the sales tax. The tax directly affects those elements of the public most likely to make violent protest against the increased burden. Protest will hardly take from as a demand for more economical and efficient government, though it is obvious that without governmental reform the solution of the tax problem can not be permanent. But instead of demanding that expensive subsidies to veterans and bureaucratic, extravagance be abolished...
...house to make way for Dudley's affianced, Christine. If she does win, however, she loses her beloved Robert and is doomed to a career abroad, dogged by her relentless mother. Dudley cavorts in the midst of all this in a galaxy of slamming doors, back slappings, protest meetings, silver cup awards, and fruitless "touches" for amounts varying from five dollars to five thousand...