Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arab League's members, the Government of British-sponsored Iraq, filed a "friendly protest" in Washington, objecting that Palestine already had enough "strangers." The Arabs had some reason to be baffled. They had understood that President Roosevelt, at his post-Yalta meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, had promised not to upset or seriously disturb the Arab position. Now the White House took the ground that since no written record of any such promise existed, the promise did not exist...
Promptly the building managers agreed. And then, surprisingly, so did the union. A few members rebelled, angrily stomped into Sullivan's office (second floor) to protest. But the strike leader sent out the word, "The strike is over." Said he, apologetically: "We were hurting our best friends-the garment workers...
...Federal outgo and income had not matched since June 1930, just after the beginning of the last great depression, and the national debt now stood at $26.2 billion. But when the Taft amendment was put before the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley spoke only a few mild-mannered words of protest. Then Georgia's economy-minded George rose to thunder...
...trouble was in southern Indo-China. At Hanoi, noting that the French Tricolor was missing from the decorations, General Marcel Alessandri huffily refused to attend the Japanese surrender to Chinese General Lu Han. And at week's end a protest went from Paris to Chungking: Chinese troops had "advanced" into Laos in the French zone
...haggisless St. Andrew's Day had faced Scots in Canada once before-in 1943. Then, they had flooded Ottawa with skirls of protest. This time the forewarned Board ruled: ". . . it was felt that an exception could be made for haggis, because as many Scotsmen contend it is a hardship to eat it as maintain it is a hardship to go without...