Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...degree at Heidelberg. He was promptly appointed professor at Leipzig. He served four and a half years as an officer in the war. At the front he wrote a challenging book, "War and Revolution". It was a call to make the world war end all war. It was a protest too against a threatened hardening of class lines into a conflict between classes. After the war Rosenstock-Hussy devoted himself to the cause of education among factory workers. This brought him into the founding of the Academy of Labor at the University of Frankfurt...
Knowing, however, that the official committee never made a mistake (except perhaps in refusing his protest of Saturday) he took stock of his equipment to see if he was fitted out for an Amazonian expedition. He was. There were thirty-one heads on board in case head-hunters were encountered; there was a bolt of bright blue gingham for exchange purposes, and, best of all, a mandolin player who could soothe the savage breast if the savage breast got savage...
...Russia is admitted we may resign and the League may have to move out of Switzerland." It took M. Barthou, Sir John and the Italian Chief Delegate, tall, hollow-cheeked Baron Pompeo Aloisi, about 24 hours to get the drafting work going quietly forward again in hotel rooms without protest...
...people who gasped in surprise and dismay as the big blue challenger tore across the finish line with the red protest flag flying, none gasped louder than the race committee whose responsibility it was to allow or refuse the protest, and that responsibility they have now acquitted...
...seems certain that the decision will raise a storm of protest in England, and if Rainbow keeps the Cup, the course of future challenges maybe doubtful. The rigid attention to rules and the disallowing of the protest because the flag was not raised "soon enough," may seen machiavellian to some, but to many it will seem, while regrettable, a reason for relaxation of the rules of yachting, not enough to spoil "the sport of kings," but merely so as to relax such minor and apparently troublesome points...