Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President sealed up a neat little bale of newspaper clippings telling of deaths from poisoned alcohol and letters of protest which he had received, despatched them to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Winston without comment...
Last week, though it was too early to hazard the statement that Abyssinia positively will not obtain justice or redress through the League, the Italian Foreign Office issued a significant statement: "The incidents culminating in a protest by Abyssinia to the League may be considered closed. The Government of France has indicated that it will not support the claims of Abyssinia before the League...
...road's property valuation. What that valuation should be based upon is in dispute. The Government insists on the 1913 value of the roads, the roads upon their present (and higher) replacement costs. Meanwhile the railroads pay according to the Government formula, but under protest. The Fund, augmented in ten months last year by $732,448.34 (from 33 lines) now approximates $6,000,000, but may not be dispersed because there is no prospect of the valuation quarrel being settled...
...bousa (beer). A yard- wide French-operated railway climbs from French Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden 500 miles inland to Addis Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia. From this glorified dung hill, seat of an Imperial House which claims descent from the biblical Queen of Sheba, a formal protest reached the Secretariat of the League of Nations last week. Prince Regent Taffari of Abyssinia declared in the name of the retired Empress Zauditu that he has seldom met with foreigners who do not desire to possess themselves of Abyssinia and to destroy the independence of the Ethiopian Empire. Specifically...
Dutifully an underling of the League Secretariat filed one more protest of the weak against the omnipotent for future reference...