Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is something sturdily conservative in the protest of one of Harvard's leading athletes of days gone by against the present tendency of undergraduates to take to their books. There was danger that the revolutionary idea that college was a place in which to study might actually dominate the student world. In fact, after every encounter with Yale, voices have been raised by Harvard men about the enervating effect of study on members of the team...
...days after Chicago's deficit was announced, the Chicago and Cook County tax bills were issued, having been withheld by Thompson henchmen until after the primary election. When they received their tax bills, citizens all over Chicago exploded with fury, and rushed to the City Hall to protest. While the city's deficit was being acquired, city and county taxes had been jacked up tremendously. Some citizens found their taxes raised 100%, some 200%, some...
Associated Press. Two resolutions were adopted: 1) to extend special voting rights and protest rights to the entire A. P. membership of 1,200 newspapers; 2) to float a new bond issue of $500,000, of which no member can buy more than $1,000 worth...
They were 171 strong and represented 39 States, but they did not call themselves "We, the People." They called themselves simply the Socialist Party, a party of protest including much that passes for innocent insurgence on the outskirts of the two big parties. They held the first national convention of the 1928 season, last week in a Finnish hall on the unfashionable upper end of Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...
Senator Stephens replied: "A good position has often been lost for a smaller offense than protesting the action of a superior." He reported an instance he had heard about Negroes who had been assigned to desks among white men and women. The Negroes, he said, were "all grins, and congratulated . . . on the recognition that had been given them." He further charged that white and Negro women were obliged to use the same washroom. Senator Stephens said his protest was "in the interest of decency and the welfare of Government. Whenever there has been a step toward social equality between...