Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British job horridly staged as excuse for an export embargo. At the same time, Minenkrieg more deadly than ever was pressed home in British waters, over the sea as well as under it. German agents in Belgium and The Netherlands let those two neutrals know that they had better protest at the top of their lungs against this new invasion of their rights. This both countries did and in The Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated anguish, for one Hollander in three derives his livelihood from German trade. Minister Jonkheer Edgar Mich...
...long as this destructive nihilism continues, every weak state is in danger of disappearing, and America if she hopes to stay neutral, must steel her mind to see the theatre of war gradually widen over Europe. There is not much the United States can do. She can protest to Russia, declare her a belligerent and an aggressor but very little more. But what is important for us is to try to see the issues more clearly all the time, and maintain neutrality in action even though it is becoming more and more impossible to maintain it in thought. Meanwhile states...
...believe that the United States should make a definite protest to Russia about her invasion of Finland," said Wassily W. Leontief, associate professor of Economics, at his home last night...
...fact that the suits against him total over $100,000 would have nothing to do with it--or the suit that would probably have forced him to live up to his contract with another recording firm. His recent polemics against the people he plays for and the natural public protest are obviously factors of no importance. And the item that one of the movie journals printed recently to the effect that Shaw was one of the most unpopular men in Hollywood because of his absolutely impossible arrogance and his hypercriticality is of no consequence...
...Manhattan literati helps him sift them each week, picking tough ones, tossing out triteness or trouble. Current politics, controversies, affairs, etc., are generally taboo. Biblical allusions are out, too, ever since John Kieran attributed a bit of Scripture to "the Bronx version," and brought on a flood of sanctimonious protest. For a question accepted, Canada Dry pays $5, and $10 more plus the Encyclopedia Britannica if it stumps the experts. The Britannica prize was added last month. First winner, on Oct. 24, was Prisoner 12,973, Connecticut State Prison. 12,973's poser: "This man was an Assemblyman, Assistant...