Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State-controlled press of Germany is usually ignored by the U. S. State Department, but a formal protest from the German Government could not be. Secretary of State Cordell Hull apologized orally: "I very earnestly deprecate the utterances which have given offense. . . . They do not represent the attitude of this Government toward the German Government." Mr. Hull's words-"in this country, the right of freedom of speech is guaranteed by the Constitution to every citizen and is cherished as a part of the national heritage"-sounded like another veiled dig at the regimented Reich, but Germany let that...
Much less sense was made last week by officers of the N.Y.K.-greatest Japanese steamship line-who walked off the steamer Katori Maru at Yokohama, saying they had "gone on strike as a patriotic protest because the N.Y.K. last Oct. 29 failed to order all its ships in all parts of the world to hoist the Rising Sun flag while the Emperor was reviewing the Grand Fleet." This inconveniences Emperor Hirohito who intends that the Heian Maru, off which the strikers also walked, shall carry his brother Prince Chichibu to represent Japan at the Coronation in London. To be sure...
...president of Harvard who is, in effect, dean of American educators to embroil himself in political questions. If, as President Conant evidently believes, the precedent may "eventually jeopardize the liberties guaranteed under the Bill of Rights", there can be no doubt as to the compelling necessity for him to protest, for the maintenance of "freedom of speech and inquiry" is the very staff of life for educational institutions. Deprived of such liberty, they perish intellectually, even though their material shell be preserved...
...article praising Cardinal Dougherty, and surely we all join in admiration of that distinguished, able and devoted prelate, you take occasion to speak with disparagement of Gregorio Aglipay, Archbishop of the independent Church of the Philippines, and I desire to lodge a friendly but emphatic protest...
...utilities empire was juggled through the corporate mazes of super-holding companies. There is a short blackout which permits Will Rogers to drawl his celebrated mot: "A holding company is where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you." There are scenes in which consumers vainly protest their light bills, farmers vainly beg for electric service, a parent explains to his little daughter that the Government would be inefficient if it tried to supply electricity. The little daughter, observing that the people trust the Government to run the post office, concludes: "The people are awfully drunk...