Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eagle Pencil Company of New York did not know that El Salvador was omitted from a world map which it was including in children's pencil boxes until the United Press called its attention to the protest made by the National Tourist Board of El Salvador to the Salvadorean Minister in Washington. The Eagle Pencil Company regrets this incident which was entirely unintentional on its part. It did not prepare or print the map in question but bought the same from a company of high standing in the printing trade. The error will be corrected in the future...
Meanwhile, on the Rensselaer campus, Robert G. Baumann, 160-pound captain of the college football team and president of the Student Union, briskly assembled his associates and their penny plunder, organized the Taxcentinels. Purpose of the stunt, explained Baumann, was to protest against "hidden taxes." The Taxcentinels signed a pledge "to help fight the growth of taxes which now consume 25? out of every dollar spent by the average person . . . [by paying] one-quarter of the price of all purchases in pennies, in order to dramatize this situation...
...that the anti-Hicks faction has been "dissolved," they have come out in favor of his appointment, and in doing so revealed an apparent lack of foundation for the story carried by the American and Daily Record yesterday concerning the "storm of student protest" the appointment had aroused. At 12:30 o'clock there were "no" signatures; and later in the afternoon an American reporter was seen trying to collect signatures for a petition on Hicks, a facsimile of which had appeared earlier in the American...
Closely following protest of 17 aged G.A.R. veterans, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and vigorous opponent of the Teachers' Oath which Hicks has already taken in New York, said: "I am very much surprised at the fear expressed by the Veterans and their friends. Mr. Hicks will take the Teachers' Oath before entering upon his duties, and therefore all will be well...
Causing a local tornado of protest, the latest issue of Life, eldest of the picture magazines, is making local history with its childbirth feature. Official comment in Boston and Cambridge was as bitter and varied as that nine years ago when Dreiser's book, "An American Tragedy," was banned in Suffolk County...