Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their Derby almost spoiled, liquor men headed by full-faced, mustached Owsley Brown, president of Brown-Formon Distillery Co. and chairman of the Distilled Spirits Institute, penned telegrams to Governor Merriam asking veto of the measure. Joining in the protest barrage last week were the West Coast's two Governors Martin (Charles of Oregon. Clarence of Washington). At week's end California's Merriam still had the bill on his desk, called a conference of objectors to hear their views...
...Goettingen. The polite excuse is that it could not find any one to go. Had the authorities spoken with their customary frankness they would have made it plain that the refusal is in no sense a reflection on the German people or on German scholarship, but is a protest against the restrictions on academic and individual freedom imposed by the Hitler government...
...California permits such vicious practices after spending millions of dollars in advertising to bring people to their "Paradise," and then subjects them to such malicious practices, many travelers who would have attended the dedication of the San Francisco Bay Bridge late in May are passing it up in protest. Thousands feel that if Californians want to make it more difficult to get to the Golden Gate than to get through the Pearly Gates, they would probably prefer looking at the Golden Gate all by themselves to banking tourists spendings...
Temporarily obscured by Vassar's course in marriage, Harvard's lead in educational liberalism has been recaptured by the announcement that a course in child psychology will be given next year. At long last the University has succumbed to the silent protest that the scholars in Cambridge learn how to read and speed but not the science of upbringing. Perhaps the public feels that Harvard men will make poor fathers, or no fathers at all, after seeing them emerge from Widener, bleary eyed and exhausted. Perhaps it feels students should have some other outlet besides riots for their pent...
...Probably," one of the men said yesterday, "we will be through before Commencement." This is not definite, however, as some students in Mather are expected to protest any invasion of their rooms when examinations actually begin, thus holding up renovation schedules...