Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more sympathetic attitude of the NRAdministrator but Germany took instant offense. That night in his hotel room at Omaha, General Johnson was surprised and chagrined to have newshawks call upon him with the news that the German Government, purple with rage, was about to protest. Sitting in his undershirt before an electric fan, the General let himself go in more characteristic fashion...
Next morning the General's outburst gave Secretary of State Hull an uncomfortable half hour. Herr Rudolf Leitner, German Chargé D'Affaires, acting for Ambassador Luther who is at home in Nazi-land, called to make a vigorous protest. Mr. Hull was in a tight place. He could not admit that a U. S. Government official had said such things without offering Germany an open diplomatic insult. Nor could he give Germany customary satisfaction, by dismissing the New Deal's Samson. So he drew himself up and with the best grace possible, took refuge in the quibble which General Johnson...
...illness, he had already announced that he would rather keep on being the university's prefect of religion. But the Roman Catholic authority which made the choice of a new president so smooth and peaceful rests on unhesitating obedience. Father O'Hara accepted his orders without protest...
...Press promptly recalled five other liberal professors who have lately walked Pitt's plank. Friends brandished an investigation by American Association of University Professors. Labor leaders promised a huge protest meeting. Led by a June graduate of Pitt named Marjorie Hanson, the League for Social Justice called for Chancellor Bowman's resignation, promised a house-to-house canvass of Pitt students. State Democratic Chairman David L. Lawrence suggested that at its next session the Legislature might well cut Pitt off its lifeline of State...
...Social Message. Its message is in the form of an implicit and unresolved question: Who is responsible for aged parents, and what is to be done about them? The unsentimental coldness with which Author Lawrence states her typical case-history is well calculated to shock readers into horrified protest, but the exaggerated indifference of her manner saves her story from drabness, gives it a painful point...