Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all the dilly-dallying and side-stepping of Constitutional issues now filling the current newspapers, it is a pleasant relief to find a little direct action by the members of the Law School in protest to President Roosevelt's judiciary evasion proposal. Their petition should serve as the touchstone for many more in all the Universities of the country. The Administration should be made aware that an ominous portion of his New Deal supporters are unconditionally opposed to any legal acrobatics dealing with the stability of the Supreme Court under the Constitution as it now exists...
...recall one slip between the cup and the lip, due to bad management. Then the Juniors counting the returns were at fault. But a hitch at any point is enough to disrupt and discredit he whole system of Senior Elections. The dissension, the damaged feelings; the howls of protest of two years ago should be sufficient reminder to each of the Committees concerned that theirs is a delicate task to be performed with care and good judgment...
...needs Relief will be dropped" (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week when the House received the Deficiency Bill appropriating Relief funds for the next five months, it transpired that Mr. Hopkins planned on cuts which made those announced in December look piddling. Yet instead of raising a hurricane of protest, the Deficiency Bill was passed by an eager House in five hours...
...Senator unearthed amid the yellowing records of the Van Sweringen empire and the dust bins of Guaranty Co. history one gem of purest ray serene. This was a memorandum written in 1930 by John Minor Botts Hoxsey, listing expert of the New York Stock Exchange, warning that "public protest" would follow the multiplication of such corporations as the Van Sweringen holding companies, for which Guaranty Co. underwrote and the Stock Exchange approved an ill-fated $30,000,000 bond issue that year (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week Senator Wheeler (delightedly confronted Richard Whitney, Depression president of the Stock Exchange, with...
...John F. Finerty of Washington and New York's onetime (1932) Socialist candidate for Governor, Louis Waldman, exhaustively questioned every prospective juror about his Labor views, peremptorily challenged everyone who confessed to the slightest prejudice against unions or their activities. Time & again Prosecutor Dewey leaped up to protest that no union was on trial. At week's end 500 A. F. of L. unionists rallied to a meeting of the city's Central Trades and Labor Council, denounced Prosecutor Dewey as "Union Buster...