Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called a protest strike, that 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant. The Goodyear strike was an unauthorized "outlaw"' disturbance, perpetrated principally by WPA groups and non-Goodyear people, many admittedly former rubber workers, now unemployed in this era of the more abundant life...
...findings were again brought to the House floor. Republicans stormed that Mr. Jenks was being sacrificed because Mr. Roy is French-Canadian and New Hampshire's Democratic Senator Fred H. Brown this year badly needs his State's big French-Canadian vote. The Democratic majority overrode their protest, unseated Member Jenks 214 votes...
...acting through Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, lodged a protest with Tokyo against the bombing of Lingnan University, and the French Government sent a stiff protest against the attack on the French hospital, both of which were politely filed away by the Tokyo Foreign Office. Japan's real reaction was, as usual, expressed by the Navy. In Shanghai, the chief of the Navy's Press Department. Rear Admiral Kiyoshi Noda, announced that Japanese aerial bombardments would continue. He expressed "satisfaction with the progress of military operations" to date and assured that "our aviators are doing their best to avoid...
...current academic year draws to a close, one of the most important bits of unfinished business, from the undergraduate point of view, is the matter of House admissions. The well-justified roar of protest against a condition which makes necessary more than three hundred disappointed applicants, has elicited from Dean Hanford a promise that future Freshman classes will be reduced; but the temporary expedient of associate House memberships was discarded, and for the next few years the problem, apparently, will remain unsolved...
Spanish War, Catholic publicists maintain that only by a Rightist victory can Christianity be saved in Spain, but thoughtful Catholics have been irritated by the hecklings of Protestant ministers and ecclesiastics who addressed a protest on Franco's bombings, not to Franco, but to the U. S. Catholic hierarchy...