Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the Agricultural Bank of Parma. Thus the Vatican's authority has seemed to wax triumphant over Fascismo's more intemperate ex-ponents-a fact which set rumors flying last week that Federzoni's abstention from the Cabinet's "decree session" was intended as a protest. The Holy See, whose advisors are long headed and far sighted, reputedly doubts the ultimate wisdom of curbing and driving Italians along the hard road mapped by II Duce. Mussolini. The Premier's lips were observed to curl silently last week when news gatherers asked him for a statement...
Pedro Guevera, Resident Commissioner of the Philippines, appeared on the House floor to score the Bacon bill, to protest that "Moro" was only a sort of nickname for Mohammedan Filipinos; that "Moros" and Filipinos were homogeneous; of one racial stock, of like temperaments and character...
...already in jail for participating in an unsuccessful revolution. From his cell he sent forth a manuscript whose seering verses he ordered printed in red ink. He called it Iras Santas (Sacred Furies). Peru was staggered by the sheer brutal power of this song of vengeance, this envenomed protest against civilization and its shams. José, bounding from his cell into the apogee of fame, became in his own words "the singer of America, a poet aboriginal and wild...
This tirade followed a reply by the Soviet government to Britain's note of protest (TIME, June 21) against the alleged contribution by the Soviet government itself of funds to support striking British workers. Like the British note the Soviet reply was couched in mild terms. The Soviet government denied that it had sent the funds in question, but refused to take steps to prevent its closely interlocked labor organizations from sending "Red gold" to Britain...
...Churchill's outburst jibed ill with a statement by Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks to the Commons that "the Government does not propose to terminate its official protest by renouncing the Anglo-Russian trade agreement-nor does the Government propose to stop any Russian money sent to aid the coal miners. . . . The total sum so transmitted now amounts...