Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miners have not been content with their Government's philanthropy. They have blamed poor production on obsolete equipment. They struck (four months ago) in protest against a Government decision not to expand. More recently they have clamored for a $1-a-day raise to bring their wages up to the $4.90 paid in privately operated mines...
...summer. Parliament's rump gathered in Châtelguyon's shabby Hotel Richelieu, heard Cabinet Chief Pierre Laval decree the legislature's virtual death. Edouard Herriot, with venerable Senate President Jules Jeannenez, broke silence. To Chief of State Pétain he sent a solemn, indignant protest: "You have substituted unlimited dictatorship for guarantees that all civilized nations grant. . . . It is impossible for liberty to die in the country of its birth...
Three of southern Italy's antiroyalist parties proposed to call a ten-minute strike in Naples last week. Object: to protest once more against the British-U.S. alliance with dilapidated little King Vittorio Emanuele III and Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Specifcally, Italian antiFascists felt that Winston Churchill had let them down again in his recent declaration of Allied policy. Said Count Carlo Sforza : "In London they seem so busy mistrusting antiFascism that they forget . . . thousands of Fascists . . . eager to stab Britain and the U.S.A. in the back...
Even though he was trained to the minute and had not eaten solid food nor had a drink of water all morning, he registered slightly more than the 135-lb. mark. Chick Wergeles (rhymes with Hercules), Beau Jack's voluble little manager, let out a roar of protest. William Brush, of the Department of Weights & Measures, called it 135 Ib., maybe a slight bit over, but explained that the crowd around the sensitive scales would cause enough extra pressure to account for this...
...file with the Association was a formal protest against the exclusion of women from the party. Its author was Mrs. Elizabeth May Craig, correspondent for four Maine papers, pert president of the Women's National Press Club (TIME, June...