Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, June 23, 1924). From the spark of tragedy ignited by his death a powder train of suspicion flamed toward Mussolini and was barely stifled without blowing up the Fascist party. The entire Aventine Opposition walked out of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and has not returned* as a protest against both the crime itself and the ruthless methods of suppressing the scandal adopted by Fascismo. Not long ago (TIME, Oct. 19), Premier Mussolini cried: "When the slayers of Matteotti are tried, the trial will be Fascismo's greatest triumph!" The trial (TIME, March 29) ended last week with...
...worst and most ridiculous sides of college life had been taken as an accurate portrayal of Harvard students and the life they led. They felt too much pride in the traditions and honor of the University to let such a caricature of it pass without a vigorous protest. Unfortunately the method they chose did little to add to that honor which was so dear to them...
...truth is that, under all the excesses of youthful turbulence on itself, there was a wholesome and reasonable protest against a play that so far as it professes to represent life at Harvard College, in either the manners and customs or the large standards of conduct and character of the students there is preposterous to a comical grotesquesness. There are, none the less, enough to believe anything and everything, however grotesque and preposterous of Harvard College. By all accounts they have taken 'Brown at Harvard' as a rather unflattering picture of life there and not as the lively entertainment...
...Margaine project for a national oil monopoly in France, recently approved by the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, has aroused a storm of protest from American oil interests. Concerned over the uncertain fate of their receiving and the distributing stations in which twenty million dollars have been invested, the Americans have characteristically appealed to the United States government...
...TIME, March 15, there appears a protest [from D. C. Chisolm] against the use of the term "Negress" to denote a woman of my race...