Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...printing this little manifesto for two reasons: 1) Lest Papa Godowsky (who reads TIME) misinterpret our motive. 2) Lest the thousands of composers among your 600,000 readers deluge Brother Hilb with their manuscripts. Then, if this letter is not already too long, may I make an extremely mild protest at your emphasis upon our "profitable puzzle-&-game volumes." It is true: twelve years ago this month we published the first of a series of Cross Word Puzzle Books which turned out to be a pleasant and profitable venture. Since that time, however, we have published more than 400 books...
This was too strong for the French Government to let pass. It instructed its Ambassador at London to protest Aeroplane's wild slanders to the British Foreign Office. In the House of Commons Foreign Secretary Eden replied to a question: "On examining the article, I found that it contained a number of allegations of an offensive nature against France which were quite unfounded. ... I deplore such unfounded statements about friendly nations, which can only be regarded as mischievous and harmful to good international relations...
...opinion that the company had spent money to break up the union, had formed a company union without determining fairly what its employes wanted. Last week members of the League who were also Borden stockholders or who could get Borden proxies went to Jersey City to identify their protest with the interests of Borden owners...
...Nanking Japanese Consul General Yakichiro Suma hustled around to the Chinese Foreign Office to protest. With a face blandly childlike the Nationalist Foreign Minister, General Chang Chun, insisted that not only was there no truth in this story but that the Nationalist Government had sent a sharp note to Moscow protesting the Soviet-Mongolian agreement as a breach of Russia's 1924 pledge recognizing China's sovereignty over Outer Mongolia...
...cream, had threatened to have it out with the mess steward. Ashore at Naples, three men had been beaten up by their fellows. Captain Gregory clapped two of the assailants in the brig. At Genoa the ship was delayed when part of the crew staged a protest meeting on the dock. After intervention by the U. S. Consul, the prisoners were released, to be sent to California as first-class passengers in another ship. A seaman who gave information to the President Garfield's officers was put ashore at Marseille for fear he would be murdered...