Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establishing an NRA-like code of wages and working conditions (8-hour day, 40-hour week, prevailing wages) for manufacturers and distributors who sell the Government at least $10,000 worth of goods per year. Expected to affect 75% of the nation's industry, it brought a prompt protest from steelmen who argued that Government supplies were a minor part of their business...
...last protest before their complete disappearance was made by the students of the School of Regional Planning last night in an open letter to the University at large. The letter stressed the incongruity of continuing to attempt to build up a course in Public Service Training under the Littauer endowment after taking away an essential element in such a course by discontinuing physical planning training...
...Presidential Palace at Managua. In complete control of the rest of Nicaragua was the National Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, and its General Anastasio Somoza, who had deployed his men around the base of the volcano. No murmur of protest at these activities rose from the Nicaraguan populace, who chose to regard the affair strictly as a quarrel between Somoza and Sacasa for the right to name Nicaragua's next President...
...that most Negroes when left to themselves will either sing spirituals or dance to the blues. The songs that fascinated Lawrence Gellert were those symbolic of Negro class consciousness, unrest and despair. From more than 300 that he has collected he published 24 last week as Negro Songs of Protest...
BOWERY PARADE-Stella Wynne Herron -Delphic Studios ($1.50). Thirteen poems of forceful protest against economic injustice...