Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention of newspapers was largely centered on the question whether Commander Lansdowne had been ordered to take the flight in spite of his protest. Official correspondence showed that it had been ordered in July, but that Commander Lansdowne had objected that midsummer was a thunderstorm period and had asked that it be postponed until September. Later he recommended that it take place during the second week of September. Instead it was ordered in the first week of the month. To this order he did not object. The purpose of setting the date for the flight...
...Sprague. Colonel Procter was obliged to pay off this note, and sued to recover half of the money from Colonel Sprague. Procter asserted that they were equally responsible for the note. Sprague asserted that Procter ran the whole campaign, spending money lavishly in spite of Sprague's protest, and that he signed the note with Procter merely as a secondary endorser so that the bank which discounted the note might know he was co-guarantor and had a part in the transaction...
...French resolution, (TIME, Sept. 28) providing that a conference shall be summoned to study the economic ills of the world, was passed after considerable protest from the British...
...forth to the bookstore, the stadium, the lecture hall, the soda fountain, the library, the bootlegger's, the chapel. (I ¶ At Yale University, not as many entered Battell Chapel as formerly in the drowsy, blink-eyed crack of dawn (8 a. m.). Unmoved by years of protest against enforced religious observance, but compelled by the physical limitations of their spiritual edifice, the Yale authorities had decreed that only freshmen would be required to attend daily services hereafter. The three upper classes would alternate their weekdays of devotion, would worship alternate Sundays. Dean Frederick S. Jones expressed the belief...
...mere subordinate sec-who has become a U. S. citizen, in 21 years has increased the resources of the Army in the U. S. from $1,500,000 to $32,000,000. Three years ago her brother removed her from her command, but there was such a flood of protest that she was reinstated for three years...