Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that I protest to the six inaccuracies as to fact in your account of my educational advisory business (TIME, May 25), but I am not an '"employment agent," not even licensed, can't pay the political graft in Massachusetts...
Periodically alumni uncap their fountain pens to protest the presence of the shooting range in the basement of Memorial Hall--an edifice dedicated to those graduates among the Civil War Dead...
...protest against the imminent abolition of the Graduate School of City Planning, a group of students in the School, headed by Oscar Sutermeister, 2S.C.P., have written prominent men throughout the country, connected with planning. Included among these are Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who has ultimate control of all physical planning in the United States through the National Resources Committee, Herbert Hoover, famed among planners for his work in the fields of housing and zoning while Secretary of Commerce, and James M. Curley, who has directly attached to his office one of the best of the 46 state planning boards...
...coast, however, the Union remained in conservative hands, wangled only a $57.50 pay scale with no overtime. The rank & file began demanding the west coast scale. When the Union failed to get it after the old wage agreement expired last winter, seamen on the 5. 5. California struck in protest in San Pedro, Calif. Harbor (TIME, March 16). Persuaded by Secretary of Labor Perkins to return to work, they took the ship back to Manhattan, where they were promptly fired, branded as "mutineers." Under one Joseph Curran, the dissatisfied element brewed a general east coast seamen's strike...
...politician that at the age of 34 Giuseppe Bottai was Fascist Minister of Corporations, wielding more power than Il Duce thought good for him. Soon he was kicked upstairs to be Fascist Governor of Rome. When the African adventure developed, Fascist Bottai packed his kit without a word of protest, sailed for Ethiopia as a simple major of the line. For being a good boy, he had his reward last week when he was made civil governor of Addis Ababa...