Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since you found it advisable to print the letter of Karl Busch in your issue of Dec. 14, perhaps you will be kind enough to allow me space to voice my vehement protest...
...Turkish Position. Foreign Minister Tewfic Bey sent an official protest to the Council, alleging that England had armed the Chaldeans against the Turks and that no Turkish atrocities had been committed. Unofficially the Turks at Geneva inquired, "How much did Laidoner get paid for his report?" Previously the Turkish representative before the Council, Munir Bey, had delivered an interminable harangue in which he raked up endless legal quibbles. He alleged that the Council had no right to dispose of Mosul, under the Treaty of Lausanne, except by a unanimous decision in which Turkey's vote must be counted...
...Amalgamated Union of Building Trades at once called a strike "in protest against this insult to our dignity...
...Freyre, the Peruvian representative on the Commission, naturally supported General Pershing. Señor Edwards, the Chilean Commissioner, who withdrew a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 7) as a protest against the Commission's "needless delay" in holding the plebiscite, was again on hand and demanded that Feb. 1 be set as the voting date. He again contended that Chile had no intention of coercing the voters and said that the Commission's instructions had been complied with to the letter...
Store windows had big signs up: "Bankers, give Florida due credit. Check it up and pledge to indorse it without protest . . . ." A real estate spellbinder went about urging bankers "to give Florida help with bonds, stocks, debentures, and other collateral." Almost none of the financiers thus exhorted were able to discover exactly what was meant...