Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls said they had entered upon no conspiracy. College officials did not discover the alarming situation until several freshmen innocently told them of it. Then Dean C. Mildred Thompson called a meeting of the class, uttered a mild reprimand: the class, said she, should have made individual or united protest against what they thought a stiff assignment. A second questionnaire was handed out. All freshmen who admitted using another student's work in the whole or greater part of the survey would be obliged to take an extra examination...
...only way that Negro Matthew Williams knew to protest his low wages was to get a revolver, kill his boss. His boss was Daniel J. Elliott, 67-year-old lumber dealer of Salisbury, on the eastern shore of Maryland. Last week, a few hours after the crime, the Eastern Shore upheld its reputation for being a fringe of the Deep South. Six men marched into the hospital where Williams lay, only partly conscious because he had shot himself in the chest and his employer's son had shot him in the head. A mob of 2,000 turned...
Last week 8,000 cigarmakers struck in Tampa, Fla. Their "readers" had been dismissed. Plant managers had caught them slipping bits of Communistic literature into their offerings. The workers struck in protest, claimed that only they could dismiss the readers since they paid them. The strike got serious when the workers went back, found the factories locked as the operators had warned they would be. Now deadlocked, the cigar industry is Tampa's biggest. Normal daily output is more than 1,000,000 cigars, the monthly payroll above...
...sometimes slipped off the cultures and that they might have been put back on the wrong containers. This the accused nurse, Anna Schütze, denied. Professor Wilhelm Kolle, a witness, lost his patience, shouted: "These attacks against Dr. Calmette are abominable! It is impossible for me not to protest, because these accusations are brought against a savant of spotless reputation but who happens to be a Frenchman...
...that game for Columbia Broadcasting Co. was staccato Edward ("Ted") Husing. Sharing with many football experts an impression that Wood's strategies were not such as could be expected from a Phi Beta Kappa quarterback, Announcer Husing described his play as "putrid." Harvard men wrote letters of protest. Other listeners thought it a particularly flagrant example of two failings common among sports announcers -using words without knowing what they mean, criticizing instead of reporting. Harvard's Athletic Director William Bingham wrote to President William Paley of Columbia Broadcasting Co. to say that Announcer Husing might never again broadcast...