Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I am forced to rise in protest because or a statement in TIME (June 24), Page 46 " . . [Mrs. Willebrandt] was a passenger on the first transcontinental rail-air-rail service. . . . Universal. . . ." Our company, the S. A. F. E. Airlines, began transcontinental air-rail service the same day Universal Air Lines began their cross-U. S. operations. Passengers leaving New York on June 14 by train and Los Angeles by plane, boarded our ships the morning of June 15 at St. Louis and Sweetwater, Tex., respectively, and completed their transcontinental journeys the following day. . . . This ends the protest. The letter...
...oppressive that Dr. Judd, unable to negotiate further with him, withdrew to the royal mausoleum in the palace yard. There by the uncertain light of a ship's lantern, Dr. Judd carried on government business using the coffin of Queen Kaahumanu (1824-1832) for a desk. His messages of protest, smuggled out of the tomb and carried overseas, brought repudiation of Captain Paulet by the British Government and his withdrawal from the Islands...
Universally disregarded, the nine-mile limit has been a potent weapon for the police to hold over fractious drivers and parties to street accidents. Last week Prague taxi drivers and chauffeurs staged an effective protest...
...majority of Mexicans call it a "dignified compromise." Dissenting were the radical anti-clerics. They protest that it is a world defeat for the forces of Liberalism. An unnamed politician said: "The Roman Church will strengthen its hold, especially on the Latin-American countries, which are watching Mexico's test and are anxious to follow her example . . . to free themselves from the yoke of the clergy...
...Corp. in 1917 since he had an agreement with the original company that they might use his name only so long as they bought their materials from the German parent plant. But no written agreement to this effect had been made. Inventor Bosch's contention collapsed. Nor could he protest the original seizure of the Bosch stock, because of a restraining post-War German-American treaty. Under this treaty Germany agreed that its citizens would institute no legal proceedings over U. S. war-time acts...