Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Ellen Hays, 67, head of the English Department at Wellesley College, said: "I feel I must voice a protest." She joined picketers at the State House, was arrested...
Soon after Marilynn Miller sued Jack Pickford for divorce, tempestuous Frenchmen raised their voices in angry protest. An investigation followed, which established that U. S. citizens made false claims of French residence after a stay of only a few weeks in a hotel or a furnished apartment; that they illegally claimed residence in a U. S. state where the conditions of divorce favored their case. For example, it was stated that many people obtained divorces on the ground of incompatibility and claimed residence in those states where such ground is sustained, no French divorce being granted that conflicts with...
...birth, barber in Rochester, N. Y., by trade, who has constantly maintained that he would rather hang than spend his life in prison, was last week pardoned by President Coolidge for a murder for which he was convicted in Alaska in 1905. Mr. Perovich attracted attention in 1909 by protesting that his constitutional rights had been violated when President Taft commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. In 1925 a Kansas district court upheld Mr. Perovich's protest, so he was released under a habeas corpus writ and became an active barber. But, last June, the U. S. Supreme...
...Chinese regime at Nanking which dominates the chief part of China, Shanghai, suddenly increased all tariffs and port dues last week to an extent which local U. S. merchants and shippers declared would prove "ruinous." Members of the U. S. colony at Shanghai transmitted through the local consul a protest and appeal to President Coolidge. Observers thought that the Nanking War Lord, Chiang Kaishek, was suffering reverses in his campaign to take Peking (TIME, March 28, et seq.) and had adopted the desperate expedient of raising all port taxes to increase his failing revenue...
Standard Oil of New Jersey. President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard of N. J. was first to protest when Vacuum Oil's and Standard of N. Y.'s Russian coup became public knowledge three weeks ago. President Teagle has long been an intimate friend of Sir Henri Deterding. Their companies carefully forbear intruding into each other's markets. Said President Teagle: "The impression has been created, both in Europe and in this country, that the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, in the face of the present overproduction in the U. S., is buying Russian oil to displace products...