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Word: protestation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather than rebel against the old guard, are trying to show them where they are wrong, and to protest against the 'reactionary' and intolerant feeling in the D.A.R." The only retaliation of the patriotic stand patters hard up to this time, was to call the insurgents 'Reds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mrs DeHaas Hits DAR Intolerance And Reactionism | 3/9/1939 | See Source »

...Member for Oxford University, Humorist A. P. Herbert, urged the Government to deny incorporation under that name, since the "natural inference" that the Group is related to the University "is not justified by the facts." Finally, without making it public, the University's governing body lodged a protest with the Board of Trade-which announced that all the protests were being considered. Dr. Buchman drew his neck in again, said nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Oxford v. Group | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

This week, while the Daughters continued to preserve a thin-lipped silence, Daughter Eleanor Roosevelt announced in her syndicated Scripps-Howard column that she was resigning from the D. A. R. in protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jim Crow Concert Hall | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

WASHINGTON -- Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution in protest against the organization's refusal to permit Marian Anderson, noted Negro contralto, to present a concert at Constitution Hall, it was indicated tonight...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/28/1939 | See Source »

...closing his laboratory henceforth to "visits from citizens of totalitarian states" Dr. Bridgman has, to be sure, made a magnificent protest. As an attempt to object publicly to the prostitution of knowledge to the worldly aims of an individual state the effort has proved wildly successful--the whole world is indisputably convinced of Dr. Bridgman's aversion to government regulation of scientific research. But in its broader significance, in the possible scope of its influence, the recently pronounced ban has several conspicuous aspects which stamp it as an impractical, misguided, dangerous effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTOLERANCE | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

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