Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles (which probably comes nearer to being a non-union city than any other place of its size; memories of the McNamara dynamiting help to keep it so) threw a number of I. W. W. members into a prison stockade. Sinclair summoned a protest meeting on Liberty Hill, and started to read Article I of the Constitution of the United States. He was promptly arrested and released on $500 bond. Mayor George E. Cryer had refused permission for the meeting, and denied Sinclair's " constitutional rights," charging that the novelist had forgotten his " constitutional duties." The Chief of Police...
...emphasizing the purposes in founding the University paper, Mr. Henry C. Merwin '74 said that the CRIMSON was founded to protest against the prevailing reactionary sentiment created by the Civil War. In closing the spoke to the effect that there is little question that the League of Nations would be entered by this country if only the young men of the country voted...
Foreign nations have taken no little interest in the decision of the Supreme Court which forbids their vessels to carry liquor as part of their ship stores, or even under seal, when in United States waters. There was a storm of protest in the English and French press...
...English Government, with its usual deliberation, has done nothing, and probably will do nothing until its legal experts have examined the Supreme Court ruling. The French Government, more impetuous, had Ambassador Jusserand visit the State Department and talk with Secretary Hughes. It, too, will probably make no formal protest until it is evident what the United States actually purposes doing. French, Italian and Spanish law requires that seamen on ships of those nationalities have a daily liquor ration. So there will be a direct clash between the laws of at least three countries and that of the United States. Ambassador...
There is a courageous paper in the South. It is the Enquirer-Sun of Columbus, Ga. In spite of K. K. K.'s to right and left, in front and rear, it says: " The whole Kukluxklan Kamelia Komedy is so foolish that one no longer wishes to protest against it because it is anti-Negro, anti-Jew and anti-Catholic, but rather because it makes the people of all the South appear idiotic when they continue to accept seriously Klonvocations and Klonciliums, and tolerate the fantastic ravings of men who are fattening on the money of deluded simpletons...