Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal and political jobs he flies his own airplane, keeps up the expert fencing which in 1928 got him elected captain of the U. S. Olympic fencing team. Not seriously seeking the Presidency, Colonel Breckinridge last week wished only to rally anti-New Deal sentiment, register a "protest" vote within the party against its present leader. Result: Colonel Breckinridge, 17,701 votes; Franklin Roosevelt...
Though this was a comfortable 5-to-1 victory for the Administration, Republican leaders began crowing at once, while partisan statisticians tried to show that if the protest voters can be counted on to go Republican next November and if the same protest appears in other States, Franklin Roosevelt "can be beaten." Said Republican National Committee Chairman Henry P. Fletcher: "These results clearly demonstrate that millions of clear-thinking Democrats will not follow one who has broken faith with his platform and his party traditions...
This week, having registered perfunctory protest against politics and graft but not caring to go on record against relief in an election year. Republican Representatives joined Democrats in passing the Deficiency Bill by a whacking...
...years ago when the radical American Student Union tried to prod U.S. high-school and college students out of their classrooms for an hour to protest against war, only 25,000 students responded. Last year the Union held a second strike, rallied 200,000 strikers. With better organization and a European crisis at hand, an estimated 500,000 student strikers last week observed the third Peace Day. While the Emergency Peace Committee was imparting to the occasion a religious flavor (see p. 32), the student Peace Day gave signs of turning into a full-sized and characteristically noisy national institution...
...writing this solely on the basis of the facts published in your news columns last Saturday, to comment on the unfair tone of your editorial entitled "Payment Deferred", dealing with the protest of certain commuters, against Dudley Hall fees being put on the term bill. Instead of this "outburst of a discontented minority" pointing strongly to "shyster tactics", it seems to me that the commuters have a good case...