Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship, shell-shocking three passengers, wounding six of the crew, killing one, damaging hull and deck. Shanghai's Mayor 0. K. Yui promptly admitted Chinese responsibility, promised fullest redress: four bombers had mistaken the liner for a Japanese troopship. Washington immediately cabled Ambassador Johnson to make a vehement protest...
...fear very much that if certain modern Americans," and the President's voice began to rasp for the first time, "who protest loudly their devotion to American ideals, were suddenly to be given a comprehensive view of the earliest American colonists and their methods of life and government, they would promptly label them socialists. . . . We know, however, that although this school persisted . . . during the first three national Administrations it was eliminated, for many years at least, under the leadership of President Thomas Jefferson and his successors. His was the first great battle for the preservation of democracy...
Uninjured by the bombings but a shocked eye-witness was Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Quickly she telegraphed a protest to Mme Chiang Kai-shek with whom she had dined earlier in the week...
Quickly organizing a march of protest, the parishioners streamed into the street. Police were soon on the spot, ordered them to disperse. When the marchers refused, 75 women, 40 men at the head of the procession were dragged off to police headquarters where their names were recorded, after which, according to police reports, they were released. Because this was the first mass demonstration on record against a Reich decree. Nazi bigwigs grew panicky. Fearing that there might be an even bigger demonstration outside the Court House while Pastor Niemöller was on the stand they discreetly postponed the trial...
...bigger appropriation to handle some 200 cases every month, Congressman Rankin swore he would oppose appropriating another dollar "until representatives of NLRB cease the communistic activities by which they are stirring up strife in every section of the country, and especially in the Southern States. I cannot withhold my protest until the streets of Southern towns and cities are stained with the blood of innocent people...