Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Official cognizance of the textile strikes was taken in the U. S. Senate last week when Montana's Wheeler offered a resolution for an investigation, at the request of President Green of the American Federation of Labor. Quickly uprose in protest North Carolina's two Senators?white-haired, old-fashioned Lee Slater Overman and small, grey-foxy Furnifold McLendel Simmons. They could see no good reason for an inquiry into North Carolina's labor troubles?and antiquated labor laws. Senator Simmons declared that if there was to be a textile strike investigation, let it include Massachusetts as well...
...actually killed, but the local Polish consul was summoned post-haste to Warsaw, and Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski announced that he was drafting a stiff protest to the League...
...have the right of free speech, free press. . . ." Then concerning Catholics, Dr. Wilson added: "The Catholic Church has long had a headquarters here from which they have no hesitancy in conferring with Senators and other government officials, and not a Methodist pulpit in the land has made any special protest against that right." Alert Washingtonians thereupon expected that yet another open letter would appear in print, this time from Catholics to Methodists. Next day such a letter did appear, by Patrick J. Ward, director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference at Washington. He, like Dr. Wilson, denied that...
Criticism evoked by the "Protest of the Masses" number is still raining upon the shoulders of Lampoon editors. H. M. Williams '85 president of the Associated Harvard Clubs wrote a letter to the board of the humorous publication, published for the first time in the supplement of the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, in which he pointed out that the derisive exploitation of Lampy's attack on the House Plan resulted in "far-reaching injury to the University through the destruction of much good will built up by the patient efforts of Harvard Clubs and alumni, East and West...
...from Frankfort on the Main last week came Germany's Farbenindustrie (farben: to dye) accompanied by enthusiastic activity on the part of U. S. bond purchasers and a lone wail of protest from Finance-Writer Hugh Farrell. The German chemical "invasion" of U. S. territory took the form of the incorporation of American I. G. Chemical Corp. as a Delaware affiliate of I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft of Frankfort, commonly known as I. G. Dyes and loosely referred to as the German Dye Trust. When Chemist Carl Bosch, I. G. Dyes' president and Dr. Karl Düysberg, its Chairman, came...