Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Hoover took his protest against British restriction on the production of rubber by that body to invest $10,000,000 a year for five years in planting rubber trees in U.S. territory or in territory where there is no foreign restriction...
...frightened little group was the so-called "Aventine Opposition," which absented itself from the Chamber (TIME, July 7, 1924, et seq.) as a protest against the atrocious murder of the millionaire Socialist Deputy Matteotti (TIME, June...
...John N. Willys at his annual luncheon there would be a perfect howl of protest. Yet, great as it seems, this increase in motor car fuel and tires would represent only about 50% of what the automobile owner now throws away in depreciation...
...facts of the case," he says, "have been misunderstood with reference to Harvard's withdrawal from the contest 'in the middle of the year'. The bulletin announcing the Prize Song was dated September 28th. Our protest was made on October 2d, and on October 9th we notified the Intercollegiate Musical Corporation of the vote of the Executive Committee withdrawing Harvard from the contest unless the rule regarding unanimous consent for the Prize Song was carried out. The protest and notice of proposed withdrawal took place therefore within two weeks of the opening of college, not 'two or three months'. From...
...Depew's three living classmates made no public plaint or protest. They may have pondered wistfully the oblivion which time brings to all men. They may have reflected sadly, "And some day even Chauncey will have been forgotten." They may have wondered which of them would outlive the others, perhaps to be chaired around Yale Field mid cheers and bunting as Oldest Living Graduate. At all events, in their three corners of the country, Mr. Depew's three living classmates held their aged peace. They were: Dr. Virgil M. Dow, retired medico of New Haven, Conn.; James L. Rackleff, lawyer...