Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Board of Tax Appeals a levy of $268,000 made against his estate. More unusual was the protest of Jesse Isidor Straus, the New Deal's Ambassador to France, who died fortnight...
...Earl of Plymouth jumped both Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German Charge d'Affaires, and Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, a fierce and scathing fighter in debate. With concentrated sarcasm Signer Grandi asked Comrade Cahan why, if Russia was so strong for non-intervention in Spain, she did not protest the British planes sold to Madrid, the British ships running guns to Spanish Reds, and the British fighting with the Red Militia, as well as the open encouragement to Spanish radicals given by such British members of Parliament as Laborite William Dobbie. This belaboring of Comrade Cahan in such fashion...
...property belonging to the present English aristocracy had its origin in the plundering of Church property by Henry VIII who awarded it to secular and ecclesiastical magnates. And now that the descendants of those pillagers cry out about the 'pillage' of Church property [in Soviet Russia] and protest against such 'sacrilege' in the name of religion, every class-conscious English worker must be laughing in their faces." It was Journalist Radek who, until a few short weeks ago, made for Joseph Stalin trenchant verbal replies to Adolf Hitler, for the Soviet Dictator has had no stomach...
...ideas, An American Testament pictures an environment that no other autobiographer has described so fully-the shifting, seething little world of impoverished and defiant Greenwich Village scriveners, of radical magazines run on a shoestring, of fierce controversies on esthetic and political subjects, of Communist meetings, transient love affairs, protest demonstrations, anti-war parades, strikes, arguments, psychoanalysis, unfinished novels and unwritten poems, of stories, gossip, limitless ambition, ineffectuality, tolerance and intolerance. As is the case with most of the current memoirs, the details of Joseph Freeman's personal story are less interesting than their background. Born in a Ukrainian village...
...grew prosperous in the building business. He attended Columbia University, whence he graduated to literary and radical circles in Greenwich Village. Deeply influenced by Max Eastman and Floyd Dell. Freeman was a Socialist during the War, supported the action of Columbia's Historian Charles Beard, who resigned in protest against the expulsion of pacifist professors. Working as a foreign correspondent in Paris and London after the War, Freeman covered the crash of the ZR-2, worked under Floyd Gibbons, conducted a long international correspondence on political and literary matters with his old schoolmates, many of whose letters he includes...