Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Touchy on this subject, President Roosevelt used a protest from the Lawyers Security League of Manhattan to defend his Civil Service record last week. Wrote...
...Street Police Court Herbalist McMahon kept repeating dully that he never meant to shoot, that his gesture was merely a "protest." On the blotter he was charged with "unlawfully having in his possession a loaded Chicago Arms Co. revolver with intent to endanger life and property...
...year in German concentration camps and prisons without any trial whatever. Seaman Lawrence B. Simpson, 34, was last year dragged off the U. S. liner Manhattan in Hamburg, charged with possessing 500,000 Communist pamphlets. Last July New York City Communists rioted onto the German liner Bremen in protest against Simpson's jailing, while his father mournfully asserted that Son Lawrence was no Communist. Last fortnight the Ministry of Justice transferred Seaman Simpson from camp to Berlin's famed Moabit Prison, changed the charge against him to trying to smuggle marks out of Germany, announced that he will...
...There are a few among us who still, consciously or unconsciously, live in a state of constant protest against the daily processes of meeting modern needs. Most of us are willing to recognize change and to give it reasonable and constant help...
...week a heart attack brought Senator Fletcher's life to a swift close. That afternoon the House rejected the Senate's Canal amendment, 108-to-62. Next morning the Senate, convening after a recess in honor of its dead colleague, accepted the House's action without protest, let Duncan Fletcher's ditch die with...