Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publisher R. L. O'Neal neglected to explain in print that he concocted the apology from his imagination in protest against picayunish criticism of newspaper errors...
...service center, that 30 percent of the earnings be turned over to the annual's sponsors, the committeeman, speaking for his seven penniless colleagues, said, "If they kick it back to P. B. H. we wouldn't yell. The idea of his making a clean-up stirs us to protest...
Strong reverberations of protest echoed through the Law School early this week over the appropriation of $3,000 worth of profits from the school's first yearbook, published in January...
...White House, five years before he died. Last week the Senate Pensions Committee favorably reported a bill grant Mrs. Harrison, now nearing 80, a $5,000 annuity such as other Presidential widows have received, but Massachusetts David Ignatius Walsh found it his unpleasant duty" to file a formal protest. Pointing out that Mrs. Harrison never "shared the burdens of official life with President Harrison" and that both her husbands left her trust funds, Senator Walsh objected: "At a time when millions of our citizens are destitute .. . what justification can be advanced to vote a pension out of the public treasury...
...hereafter the only place in Russia where anyone could get a British visa would be at His Britannic Majesty's consulate in Leningrad. Last week, the Russians, who also do not like to be dictated to, again asked for the closing of the British consulate in Leningrad. "Under protest" Britain acceded, thereby shutting off the only source of British visas for all except diplomats, who can get them from the British Embassy in Moscow. This did not bother the Soviet Government which is quite ready to make a diplomat out of any citizen it cares to send abroad...