Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deputies elected to the Dáil Eireann (Irish Free State Chamber of Deputies) by the Irish Republicans or Sinn Feiners* have heretofore abstained from taking their seats, as a protest backing up their claim (TIME, Nov. 22) that "The Irish Free State is not Irish, is not free and is not a state...
...American history textbooks. From these many Chinese have gotten the idea that a new era dawned on the world when the American colonies broke away from England. Believing that American greatness began with revolution, the Chinese have followed suit with revolutionary movements of their own. . . . Someone ought to protest against such dissemination in the Orient of the poisonous idea that revolution is a necessary antecedent to prosperity...
...ever the Princeton players were unnecessarily rough the time to protest was when the offense occurred, as West Point did last year after a game with Syracuse when several of the cadets were disabled. No one thought the less of the Academy for speaking out, rather than nurse a grievance. One may be sure that if Harvard had won her games with Princeton, nothing would have been heard of "dirty" football. In the irritation that was inflamed by several defeats, rough play became distorted by some into foul play and suspicion into charges which the Harvard men have been quick...
Milton now, fearless and speculative, converted his own case into a public protest against the existing laws and theory of marriage, in a pamphlet entitled "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Restored to the good of both Sexes from the Bondage of Canon Law and other Mistakes...
Such reasoning caused a flare of protest in Mexico, in South America, in Europe. Last week alarm was sounded in Washington. President Coolidge's Official Spokesman said that he was deeply concerned. He called for Secretaries Kellogg and Wilbur; they conferred for two hours. Nothing was announced. Rear Admiral Latimer remained on duty in Nicaragua. Senators and outsiders kept the question heated...