Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the discovery that uncut fruit is served in all House dining halls without restriction or checkup of any kind, a wave of protest from Freshmen arose because of the Union policy of cutting and limiting the supply of oranges and apples...
...than the present advisers who are widely admitted to be inadequate. But although no one can deny the almost criminal negligence that the officials of Harvard have bestowed on the problem and their utter failure to move toward a solution, no matter how many voices have cried out in protest, it does not follow at all that seniors would be any more capable to solve Freshman problems than the men who are supposed to shoulder that task...
...benefiting from cultured, straggle-haired Socialist Premier Blum's new social laws, are enjoying a 40-hour working week, there was plenty of discontent in France last week. Hotel, restaurant and cafe workers, still waiting to be included in the 40-hour setup, staged a noisy demonstration to protest against employers who refuse to grant shorter working hours during the impending tourist season. To appease them the French Government had already been obliged to abolish the Droit de Tab-lier ("Right of the Apron"), the "privilege" of waiters, hat-checkers, washroom attendants, doorkeepers to pay their employers for allowing...
TIME, April 5, 1937, page 41, second paragraph AWFUL!! The President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs of these United States to be dubbed "first vice president"-referring to Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson! I am only one of a million federated clubwomen to protest...
...acknowledged by Editor Oursler to be a forgery, allegedly by one Miss Kathryn Martin Lambert to whom Oursler paid $100 "as a pure gratuity" shortly before starting suit, Editor Oursler petitioned the New York court last month to permit him to discontinue the action. Last week, over the protest of Mrs. Macfadden that Editor Oursler knew the letter was a forgery when he began suit, discontinuance was granted...