Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marine Corps to make the people conform to laws they evidently do not like." The Chamber of Deputies voted an appropriation of 15,000,000 francs for the relief of sufferers from "floods, tidal waves, avalanches, forest fires and other calamities." Communists in Paris decided to hold a Ruhr protest meeting. They secured the Syndicalist Hall. The Syndicalists waited until the Communists (now their hated enemies) arrived and then began to break up the meeting. When Marcel Cachin mounted the platform, a free fight broke out. Chairs, lamps, windows and the platform were broken. Then numerous revolver shots. People fled...
...many months a committee of divines, headed by Dr. Murray S. Howland of Buffalo, has been preparing a protest. It was issued last week in the form of "An Affirmation," which, summarized...
...communication of protest to the U. S., the Italian Government said: "It is sincerely hoped that the Government of the United States will use every effort in suggesting to Congress a way of not reducing to a devisory figure the immigration of the people that have contributed so much to the productivity and prosperity of the United States, and that a solution of the immigration problem may be arrived at that will not affect so harshly the interests and the pride of the Italian nation, which has always had for the American people feelings of true friendship and esteem...
TULIPS AND CHIMNEYS?E. E. Cummings?Seltzer ($2.00). E. E. Cummings was in a French prison during a great part of the war. His protest took the shape of a highly naturalistic narrative called The Enormous Room. In the present volume we have a collection of his poetry. His work is always distinguished by a rigid adherence to freedom. He would rather die than be usual. The result is a riot of noise and color, of poems sprawling across and around and through the page. His phrases are unforgettable and wholly unique. Whether or not he has the gift...
...were taken for the founding of a "youth movement," similar to that which swept in waves over Europe at the close of the War, when the younger generation attempted to organize itself against the materialism of its elders. Sherwood Eddy, in support of this, said: "The movement is a protest against the old social order. Over Europe as a whole, one-tenth of the people possess approximately nine-tenths of the wealth." With reference to America, he asked: "Is there no autocracy in industry when for 25 years from 1881 to 1906 we averaged 1,470 strikes a year...