Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, the Pravda, Moscow journal, grew livid over the absence of any protest from the world bourgeoisie...
...started a vigorous campaign against the injustice. In the University of Minnesota the students have formed an Anti-Compulsory Military Drill League which is engaged in spreading its sensible propaganda broadcast through the still-shackled colleges of the country. Undergraduate opinion, seldom so unanimous, is gathering momentously and its protest voices itself continually by the increasing number of student demonstrations. Surely the time has come when American universities, no longer training camps for an immediate war, can more nearly resemble seats of learning...
...brand Mr. Snowden's repeal of those duties (TIME, May 12, 1924) as a purely partisan action. Mr. Snowden retorted: "I can well understand that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is incapable of understanding that any person can be moved by honest political convictions." (Torrents of protest from the Government side of the House, loud cries of "withdraw.") Mr. Snowden retorted: "I will follow Mr. Churchill's example and withdraw nothing." Some time before his tiff with Mr. Snowden, Mr. Churchill's attention was brought to the fact that foreign nations were "dumping" duty-free articles...
Whitney. The law lords of the House of Lords, sitting on the supreme appellate court of the realm, gave a hearing to a protest lodged by Harry Payne Whitney, U. S. financier and race horse owner, nonresident, non-British tax payer, against a £360,000 (about $1,746,000) levy on his income...
...paraders-some 400 strong-students of Howard University (for Negroes). After their deliberations in the chapel, they had voted to discontinue their attendance at classes until their President, Dr. James Stanley Durkee, should give them some satisfaction for representations they had made to him in protest against compulsory physical and military drills† They demanded reinstatement of anti-militarists dismissed by Dr. Durkee, swore to "cut" their classes a beyond the allowable number of 20 as was necessary to "adjust their rights...