Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This last was too much for chunky little Ambassador Dieckhoff, who trotted to the State Department to protest to Secretary Hull. He pointed out that Germany has done all it can do by forbidding its own nationals to join the Bund. "Un-officially," Embassy Counselor Dr. Hans Thomsen called Witness Metcalfe untrustworthy. Counselor Thomsen asked why the Dies committee did not call Führer Kuhn to testify...
...drop in janitors' pay from $29 to $23 during the summer is believed to have called forth the first protest and the subsequent negotiation between the union and the University. For the University Durant said that his office had been working for several years on discrepancies in wages and was glad to come to a settlement at this time...
...sweet, menacing old lady" on middle-class Central Park West, scowls at white ties, gives manners-be-damned, whiskey-by-the-case, all-night free-for-alls, gets bored with people and keeps picking up new ones. Rodgers takes the world in his stride; Hart is tempted to protest, fume, explain, deprecate - argues, for ex ample, with the desk-clerk of a Khartoum hotel because it does not carry Variety...
...great & good political friend of Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. As Democrats they were freely invited to enter this week's primary to smear Senator Tydings. Because the Senator still had an inner track with Boss Smith's heirs, he was one purgee who did not protest...
Good Neighbor or not, Secretary Hull seemed to have resigned himself to the necessity of speaking bluntly to recalcitrants. Last week he had Ambassador Grew in Tokyo strongly protest Japan's shooting down of a Chinese-U. S. airliner in China...