Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been in accord with the spirit manifested by the nations in the Nine-Power Treaty and in the Kellogg Pact, and furthermore that the members of the Harvard Liberal Club and the students here present favor the use of economic sanctions by the Powers of the World as a protest against these actions and as a guarantee for the future peace and progress of the nations...
...August, Germany has voluntarily paid 10% of her outstanding short term debts. Some creditors received more than 10%. Future cash payments will be made first to those countries which have received the least. ¶ Still to be settled is the interest rate on these frozen loans. Foreign banks protest that they cannot charge less than they must pay their own domestic borrowers. All these interest rates vary. ¶ Banker Wiggin's international committee was most anxious to persuade creditors to convert cash advances to German banks into ten-year 6%, notes. As bait, German banks have agreed to deposit...
...greatest lumber concern under one ownership. Long-Bell grew to a company with $108,000,000 in assets. Yet assets do not always earn profits. Lumber has long been bad. Last week, alarmed by mounting deficits, certain bondholders of Long-Bell asked for a receivership. Prompt to protest was Chairman Long, now a thin, grey, tight-lipped little man of 87 whose wrinkled face wears a placid look. Proud of his company, old Robert Long was sure that the troubles of 1930-32 would vanish as did those of 1874-75. Surprisingly, Halsey, Stuart & Co. (who sold the bonds), agreed...
...excitement and activity in Honolulu and Washington. Governor Lawrence M. Judd of Hawaii, island-born son of an island-born father, found himself under sharp, critical attack for Honolulu's lax law enforcement. Businessmen led by Walter Dillingham, railway tycoon, demanded a cleanup. Worthy citizens held mass meetings to protest against being "shushed"' by politicians who fairly screamed that Hawaii's raucous medley of race and sex was all an exaggeration. The Grand Jury met and dawdled while Governor Judd summoned a quick session of the Territorial Legislature, recommended a reorganization of the politics-ridden police force, capital punishment...
...will-and to take the consequences. . . .' Said The Christian Century: "Our readers ... are listening to the almost unanimous voice of the Christian press of the nation. . . The only way in which a spiritual faith can be kept alive in the United States under this decision is to protest repudiate . . . work for its correction...