Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alsace. Archbishop Ruch of Alsace ordered all schools in the Province to incept a three days' strike as a protest against the Government instituting interdenominational schools at Colmar. His Eminence also gave his approval to the demand of the Committee of Action for the Defense of Religious Liberty and Traditions in Alsace that all "Christian" (i.e., Catholic) parents observe the strike...
...hysteria for the repression of minorities is dying a hard death, Employers still find public support for the breaking of strikes through resort to laws against criminal syndicalism. Any protest by labor unions is proof positive of the spread of sinister influence. And if cries are heard from the red or yellow press--the more need for stern suppression...
...interesting side light on undergraduate indifference to note that the organizations of tife various clubs and societies to which they belong are usually effected without a whimper of protest. They smile pleasantly, say "aye" when they are told to do so: and each votes for the officers that the man next to him puts down. But if for one moment they suspect that someone is trying to force their hand, then chaos reigns and the little demagogues of Government I rise in wrath and howl defiance...
...protest, Mr. MacDonald led the whole Labor Party out of the House, each member bowing elaborately as he passed the Speaker's Chair. The silence in which these proceedings were carried out was only once broken and that was when Jack Jones, Laborite, challenged the House by shouting: "Come outside and we'll settle it!" It was the first time that any party had walked out of the House since Bonar Law led the Conservatives out in 1914 over the Irish Home Rule Bill...
...There has been a cry for the drama at Harvard and a protest against the departure of Professor Baker", declared Eduardo Sanchez '26, President of the Dramatic Club, in an open meeting of the club last night. "But it seems to me best to protest constructively. The Dramatic Club offers the sole opportunity for serious work in the drama...