Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile a board of education at Interlaken, N. J., busied itself with a stormy protest against national publication in the press of a picture of Col. Lindbergh...
...anger, not in malice, came measured words of protest, last week, from His Excellency Dr. Gustav Sthamer, German Ambassador to the Court of George...
...stickers, about one-inch square, sold by the League in booklets of 20 for $1, carried the legend: "Protest against Marine rule in Nicaragua." They were to Liberals what Christmas stickers are to Christians-a greeting and an expression of opinion. Fifteen hundred of them had been sold before Postmaster Kiely took action...
Chief of the industrial hives of Spain is Barcelona, where smart Hispano-Suiza motor cars are made, where boulevards are broad and new, where huge docks and sprawling factories are ever busy. Last week 70% of the workers in Barcelona struck, in protest against the imposition of an income tax upon small pay envelopes. The tax was levied by decree of Dictator-Premier-General Primo de Rivera, paunchy, florid, strong, who proposes to extend State assistance to the impoverished and lackadaisical farmers of Southern Spain at the expense of such industrialized Northern cities as Barcelona...
...Europe people go to hear one and the same opera over and over again; here in America the weekly subscribers of the Chicago Opera, for instance, would raise a storm of protest if they were to see the same performance twice in two years...