Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every one knew the President would veto, or of passing a bill which would satisfy the President's demand for revenue, but would offend various users of the mails. The House favored the latter course. The Senate was inclined to the former. The publishers had risen in violent protest when it was suggested that their rates be raised. Both Senate and House yielded to them. Farmers' organizations protested against raising parcels post rates. The House decided to risk the farmers' wrath. The Senate was less inclined to. The House...
...discern in the attitude of its President an ignominious desertion of the best ideals of the humanities for the "ideals" of big business; and inasmuch as I do consider such an attitude and philosophy as an effrontery to culture, not only in this continent, but in all continents, I protest and ask that my protest be filed. A. Phillipoff...
...believe you are generally at some pains to be accurate and I would not think of trying to do without your magazine, but I must register a protest against your using "Episcopalian" as an adjective?TIME, Feb. 16, page 18, first news column, first line...
History has it that Yale was founded as a protest against Harvard's liberalism. Rumor has it that even the Elis of today are a grim set of hide-bound conservatives, appearances and escapades to the contrary. Now comes fact to substantiate rumor: Yale undergraduates of the future are to be limited as far as possible to descendants of Yale graduates. Ancestry, not scholarship, is to matter...
...various intimate scenes and the incredible flood of epithets aroused the critics' and the World's protest. They were deliberate panderings to the shoddy instincts of the masses. Unlike the similar display of Mr. Belasco (Ladies of the Evening), the scenes were never entertaining...