Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bastard," said Lawyer John W. Davis, "sired by Indolence (he by Ignorance) out of Dubiety. Against such let all honest men protest...
...Everyone cannot raise hogs, cotton, corn or wheat." Many a socialite Philadelphia matron at her breakfast table goggled as she read these words addressed to her. Then, reading on, she found she was being invited by Mrs. Walter M. Newkirk to join the "Potato Protest Planters...
...every conscientious objector to the AAA program and to its un-American and apparently unconstitutional measures, plant a potato patch," exhorted Clubwoman Newkirk. "Let every such potato patch bear a sign in large letters to proclaim the protest far & wide...
...George Horace Lorimer, wife of the New Deal-hating publisher of Saturday Evening Post proudly announced: "I and my friends in Philadelphia are going to give over our grounds to planting the protest potatoes...
Immediately, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen yowled in protest, said the Burlington was endangering its trains, since the "dead man's control" might fail. Denying this, the railroad refused to negotiate, stood pat, though the cost of hiring extra men for Zephyrs would total at present but $88 a day more. Nothing daunted, the Brotherhood polled Burlington's 1,700 engineers and firemen, by last week had more than a two-thirds majority lined up in favor of a strike...