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Word: protestation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawaii, 600 travelers were unable to continue because no U. S. ships were sailing. After loud protest from Governor Joseph B. Poindexter, Strikeleader Harry Lundeberg in San Francisco announced that all ships bound for the U. S. mainland could sail. In Honolulu, lettuce jumped from 5? to 25? a head, celery from $3.25 to $9.80 per case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Waterfront War | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Pink fadeouts there were comforting extenuations. Nominee Browder had campaigned far more strenuously against Alf Landon than for himself, persuading many a Red that he might best serve his cause by a vote for Roosevelt. Nominee Thomas, who got a large non-Socialist protest vote in 1932, could reasonably conclude that the electorate this year loved him not less, but Franklin Roosevelt more. In addition, his Party's right wing split off, merged last summer with New York State's American Labor Party. Neither Communists nor Socialists were displeased at losing strength to this new faction, under whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Phoenix & Dodo | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...wish to submit a strong protest against the dilatory manner in which the fellow supposed to rill the column, Miscellany, is attending to his duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...will not contest his protest concerning the evils of the American Legionnaires. On the other hand, I sincerely believe that they have compensated much for these black marks against their record by hauling Earl Browder off of the soap-box. Browder got exactly the kind of reception that anyone would receive were he to attempt to preach Capitalism in Russia. Indeed, in the latter case, his meeting would not have been the only thing that would have been smashed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/31/1936 | See Source »

Burke, president of his class, was expelled for speaking at an outdoor meeting last May called by the American Student Union as an act of protest against Columbia's sending of a delegate to the celebration at Heidelberg University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civil Liberties Committee of HSU Holds First Meeting | 10/21/1936 | See Source »

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