Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter of 1907, Manhattan had its most celebrated operatic scandal. Critics scolded, pulpits seethed. The solemn, stiff-collared directors of the Metropolitan Opera House went into a huddle, sent a word of warning to harried Director Heinrich Conried. The grounds for this protest were moral. Its cause was a new opera which had just been given its Metropolitan premiere. In the opera a necrophilic heroine disrobed before her gloating, drunken stepfather, demanding as the price of her strip tease the head of an imprisoned prophet. To the severed head, duly served up on a platter, she made more or less...
...German goods. The U. S., with at least $20,000,000 owed on the Austrian debt, is in no position to drive a settlement since she annually sells $29,280,000 more to Germany than she is forced to buy. So far, Washington has dispatched three notes of protest against Germany's failure to pay. Germany has not troubled to answer...
...renegade labor-union cast-off" tried to organize the miners, but older workmen, working with Grant's friend, the chief of police, soon ran him off. Why, then, did so many of the miners join Pancho Villa? Why did a fault-finding stockholder in the U. S. protest that there were too many sons, sons-in-law, nephews and brothers-in-law on the payroll? Why did a greenhorn mining engineer, sent to Mexico by the board of directors, report that the mines could produce more than they...
...called a protest strike, 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant. . . ." The strike was not authorized in the beginning and not called until long after the trouble...
...sympathy or aid from France in that event. In Italy, the controlled press fumed at "Red Spain." Benito Mussolini's journalistic spokesman, Virginio Gayda, writing in Giornale d'Italia, said Italy's answer to Leftist bombs "will be immediate and implacable, not with diplomatic notes of protest, but with cannon." Italian Chargé d'Affaires Renato Prunas warned M. Bonnet in Paris: "We shall reply to acts of war with acts of war." Leftist Spain's Paris Ambassador Dr. Marcelino Pascuo, hurriedly corrected any impression that "places from which the raiders come" meant Italy...