Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Estate Inc. of Manhattan and was managed by William K. Boone, U. S. citizen; but Mr. Boone, unable to effect a settlement with the strikers, was forced to surrender the entire plant to the State authorities, acting on the orders of Governor Jara, and promptly left to file a protest in the U. S. All this took place last March...
Particularly at this time such apparently unreasonable preference rankles in the Freshman mind, bringing forth a wall of protest from those who do not understand both sides of the case. There are in the University a certain number of teachers whose names are famous all over the country. Their courses are invariably widely advertised and over-supplied with students. It is only natural that they should be. It is undesirable, however, to build bigger class rooms and larger auditoriums. Courses must be limited and, when they are, it is the Senior, not the Freshman, who must be given precedence...
Pointing his index finger at M. Caillaux, he continued: "You have never ceased to protest your innocence. In that case, you ought to have demanded a retrial. You have preferred to come back here by the back door of electoral amnesty. . . . You doubted the possibility of victory [in the War] and risked the ruin of France. Not only do I refuse my confidence, but I consider your presence on the Government bench a defiance of the dead and living...
...walls trembled with a mixed chorus of applause and protest as the heated Deputy resumed his seat...
...effect that any similar infringement of journalistic etiquette would be severely punished. Other colleges evidently felt that they might need to protect themselves against the irrepressible doings of their undergraduates, and be called upon to justify their actions in the eyes of the world. Unaffected by outside protest, the authorities of Harvard have quietly continued to keep their hands off of student opinion, knowing that the whole affair would take care of itself. Such far-seeing trust, questioned, as it is at this moment by outsiders, cannot be too deeply appreciated by those within the college...