Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received a protest from the National Civil Service Reform League about the Starnes Bill-which would give veterans inside track on some Government jobs...
...Leader of the House of Lords. Stooped, willowy, witty Lord Cranborne and Eden were known as the "Foreign Office Twins" when they worked together in the governments of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Their views were so close together that when Eden quit as Foreign Secretary in 1938 in protest against appeasement, Lord Cranborne, his Under Secretary, followed with outspoken approval. Nothing since has ruptured their teamwork. The sensitive hands of Lord Cranborne would pay out the Eden line with few hitches or tangles...
...state, Jan's spirit of adventure had to be channeled into more representative endeavors. He worked in the Prague Foreign Office, as chargé d'affaires in Washington, as Dr. Benes' private secretary, in the Czech legation in London. From 1925 until he resigned in protest against the Munich deal, he was Czechoslovak envoy to the Court of St. James's. In a dinner speech after his resignation Jan Masaryk said, in spite of everything: "I want nothing better for the world than that all countries should have the same qualities as these islands of England...
...fact that none of the tragedies [he has predicted] ever came to pass . . . has in no way affected [his] status as prophet, analyst," keeper of the Old Guard faith. Of Kent: "A prosperous citizen [vice president of Baltimore's Sunpapers] . . . when [he] assails the New Deal, the protest comes from the heart...
Textile manufacturers, squeezed between artificially higher cotton prices and OPA ceilings on their finished goods, protest that no cartel ever dared to manipulate supply and prices so brazenly...