Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the Judge in a terse memorandum explaining his protest to the U. S. Treasury (which had paid Artist Clark $800 of $2,000 due him): "The work ... is exceptionally well done and there are many appropriate places where such murals might be displayed. . . . [But] jurors should not have their minds affected by exhibits not legally admitted in evidence. . . . The mural depicting the injury . . . would be referred to by counsel [in accident cases] ... as depicting pain, anguish and sorrow...
Instead, every day from the Bijur kitchen ten to 15 Ibs. of meat, seven to ten Ibs. of butter, 18 to 20 loaves of bread have gone to nourish the strikers. The servants do most of the labor, Mrs. Bijur sometimes helps (see cut). To protest the banking department's failure to rehire the strikers, the Bijurs last month refused to pay rent until served with a dispossess notice. Mrs. Bijur trudged up & down four flights of stairs rather than use the elevator and condone the presence of strike breakers, some of whom have joined...
...workman's protest jelled into an idea and in 1931 Geo. A. Hormel & Co. tried an experiment, offered its smokehouse employes a guaranteed annual wage to ease the shock of layoffs, the strain of rushes. Since then the company has made industrial history with a "straight-time" annual wage plan, under which workers in Hormel's big main plant at Austin are paid a stated wage for a stated amount of work, regardless of the time it takes them...
...name of the many thousands of Lutheran ministers suffering today in Germany unimaginable misery with no means to voice their protest and in the name of all those of my fellow-ministers in the U. S. who shall rise as one against such an interpretation I must ask you, the editors, and the designer to clarify that phase of the picture, in order to dispel any doubt in the minds of your readers...
...English film now at the University, nevertheless unfolds an engrossing tale of mutiny and conspiracy among the natives of northwest India. Filmed entirely in technicolor, the picture contains splendid interior shots of a traditional Mohammedan feast, as well as magnificent panoramic views of rugged mountain gorges. One might well protest, however, against the Buckingham Palace splendor of the supposedly primitive British army outposts, strangely out of harmony with the rude country around the Khyber Pass...