Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speedy cruiser construction which would bring the U. S. fleet up to its authorized strength. A $767,000,000 Navy League building program was advanced. When President Hoover and Secretary Adams last month began to hack down the Navy's budget, Propagandist Gardiner cried out in pain and protest. The proposal by Italy's Dino Grandi for an all-round suspension of naval building for one year sent him into a statistical spasm...
...members of the first year class are eligible to compete for the $10 gold piece, which has been offered to the winner. First year proctors have registered a protest over their exclusion from the forthcoming net battles between former preparatory school champions...
Articles which may have to suffer imposition of the luxury tax are: automobiles (a tax eliminated in the 1928 Revenue Act over the protest of Secretary Mellon), theatre & cinema tickets (no tax now exists on tickets worth less than $3), matches, radios, cigarets. Criticism of luxury levy was not long forthcoming. "It is perfectly ridiculous!" scoffed fiscal-minded Senator McNary of Oregon...
...boycott of Japan. Whites in Windsor, Ontario, were startled by 400 Canadian Chinese who staged a sort of Boston Tea Party. Piling up $6,000 worth of Japanese tea, silks and sea food, they poured on gasoline. Windsor's venerable Fong Lee, cackling defiance at Japan, fired the protest pyre. On the Pacific Coast, U. S. shipowners assumed with glee that Japanese shipping lines had canceled sailings to China, scrambled to get the business...
...such an attitude are apt to be fragmentary personalities with a strongly utilitarian turn of mind. Though it may be inevitable in the face of modern living that liberal-arts colleges should merge gradually into technical schools, many college men who have found a world in Latin will protest the passing of a brave tradition...