Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the Wagner Act holds the use of labor spies an unfair labor practice, members were interested in a blistering telegram sent by New York Regional Director Elinore Herrick to Chairman Madden: "I protest the method of investigation which has been pursued in the New York regional office . . . behind locked doors, in secrecy and in a thoroughly objectionable manner . . . the procedure one might expect from the OGPU...
...Angels ($4,000,000). They knew it was one of the longest pictures ever filmed (three hours and three quarters of Technicolored action). Above all, most of them knew by heart the love story of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, and they were there to protest if it had undergone a single serious film change. Putting it on fPm had been a job as fantastic as the ballyhoo...
...almost four hours the drama keeps audiences on the edge of their seats with few letdowns. There are unforgettable climaxes: 1) Scarlett shooting the Yankee "deserter" ("deserter" is a concession to Northern protest: in the book he is one of Sherman's raiders) ; 2) the scene of mass desolation as the quietly weeping people of Atlanta read the casualty lists after Gettysburg. Audiences are jerked out of their seats when the mood of defeat is smashed triumphantly as a band bursts into Dixie. By great cinema craft, it is the first time the whole of Dixie is heard...
...quiet. Finland announced that she was fortifying the Aland Islands and had mined their approaches. There was no protest from Sweden, which alone might object to the proximity of big guns to Stockholm. Russia announced her blockade of the Gulf of Finland, and Finland said it was illegal. There were some sporadic exchanges between Finnish coastal batteries and Russian warships in the Gulf (the Russians shelled Hanko without much effect), and Finland suspected Russia of planning to land troops before the Gulf begins to freeze around Christmas...
...Premier was another story. His numerous decrees ending press freedom, clamping down a strict (and sometimes clumsy) censorship, his bland refusals to compromise, his crushing of the great French labor unions so that now French laborers are forced to work overtime for no extra pay and cannot effectively protest against either conditions or wages-all these things and others have caused widespread and deep-seated distrust. The Premier's argument last week that he must have a blank check from Parliament because "democracies find themselves in the presence of other regimes which can act rapidly and in secret...