Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effective speech, however, was demonstrated when Alabama's Dixie Graves rose for her maiden Senate effort. Apologizing for her forwardness by explaining that the term to which her Governor husband appointed her would probably expire before the Anti-Lynching Bill was voted on, slender Mrs. Graves put her protest on record with ladylike dignity. Said she: ". . . If this bill is passed, you will say not merely to America but ... to the world, we have in our Union a group of Southern States that cannot or will not enforce the law. I cannot believe that any Senator . . . would thus violate...
...first Sit-Down in the automobile industry-a protest against a company ban on wearing union buttons-occurred just a year ago in a General Motors' Fisher Body plant in Atlanta. Last week, appropriately if unconsciously, a group of rebel United Automobile Workers celebrated that Sit-Down's first anniversary by sitting down once in the Detroit Cadillac plant, twice in the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, where 14,700 General Motors workers were promptly thrown out of work.* Outlawed by the union, unsupported by officers of the local, the second Fisher Body strike was soon down...
...words. But as a reader of TIME, I have learned to expect notably correct writing. Consequently when that peculiar word photogenic showed itself in LIFE some time ago, I was inclined to be lenient. Now that it has appeared in TIME (Oct. 25, p. 25), I am inclined to protest...
...Church of England is today the largest recipient of royalties from British coal, draws some $1,850,000 yearly, while the Duke of Hamilton gets $565,000 and the Marquess of Bute $545,000. The Church is not expected to protest as Conservative Socialism cuts its revenues, wisely figuring that, if it gets as much as Mr. Chamberlain wants to give, it should in these times thank...
...post to which Mrs. McCarthy felt herself entitled for life. Answer to her charges by Will T. Beck, former member of the State Board of Administration, was that "most of the girls sterilized were sexual perverts, obstreperous, fighters or near degenerates. . . . Parents or guardians . . . were notified. . . . Few appeared to protest." Mr. Beck also produced a letter from enthusiastic Lulu Coyner, now retired to Longview, Wash., describing her sterilizations as "the finest service to society the Girls' Industrial School has ever contributed." Said Chairman William H. Burke of Kansas' current board.of administration: "It has not been the policy...