Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands of the Press, II Benito received not even formal courtesy. As a protest against Fascismo's actions in maintaining a strangling censorship on all Italian news and even expelling a foreign journalist from Italy, over 100 journalists, representing a majority of the chief newspapers of the world, completely boycotted Mussolini when he announced that he would read a prepared statement to the Press, but would answer no questions...
...cheer, vitiating as was its effect on the matutinal appetite, did not--alas!--arrive entirely as a bolt from the blue.. To anticipate something of the kind as the inevitable result of a cheer-leading "competition," did not require the gift of second sight. Let me hasten to protest that I do not herein wish to imply any criticism of the gentlemen who, as victims of the said competition, have been drafted to their ridiculous duty. Their services need only have been impressed for the bedevilment of Harvard cheering, and they are assuming that implied obligation seriously...
...Page 2, LETTERS, for a letter of protest over the manner in which TIME has handled Riff stories to date...
...sequel is almost incredible. The Italian Embassy at London was instructed to lodge a protest against this part of Premier Baldwin's speech with the British Foreign Office! Mussolini, it appears will brook no insult. Mr. Baldwin, easy going, though he is, found himself suddenly accused by the English Press of having floundered into a "blazing indiscretion...
...champagne on the stoop with their morning deliveries; cigarstore men do not use ten-dollar bills for coupons; melons are not filled with wine; cream does not run down the hills; checkbooks do not grow on trees in Florida. Last week in Manhattan a dozen prominent Floridians gathered to protest against the reckless and fraudulent exploitation which is hurting their state. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was in the chair. Coleman Du Pont sat by. Said Herman A. Dann, President of the State Chamber of Commerce: "I bewail . . . . those fictionists and self-serving plungers whose work and words...