Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premiers Giovanni Giolitti and Vittorio Orlando definitely ranged themselves on the side of the Opposition-that hopelessly torn group whose disgruntled Socialist members (150 of them) have refused to attend the session, as a protest against Fascismo. Ex-Premier Salandra voted for the Government. Many notable speeches were made...
...permitted no faults, no weaknesses?other than the exalted one of physical ill-health. On the other hand, there have been daring iconoclasts no less superlative in their attacks upon this knight of the spotless scutcheon? notably W. E. Henley, his erstwhile patron and intimate, who registered savage protest against the "Seraph in Chocolate," the "Barley-Sugar Effigy" of legend. With nicely considered moderation, Mr. Steuart aims at the truth behind the haze of contradiction...
...room from the house of a Newport merchant of the mid-18th Century. There stands the desk at which, glowering and growling, he read the Stamp Act; and having read, called for his boots, drank a stirrup-cup, rode off to New York to protest against...
...body of the unknown Japanese patriot who committed hara-kiri several months ago close to the compound of the former U. S. Embassy (TIME, June 9) as a protest against the enactment of the U. S. Immigration Bill (TIME. April 28, June 2, et seq.) is to be disinterred from Aoyama Cemetery and reinterred in the military cemetery where lie some of Japan's greatest heroes...
...Chapman's protest against the election of a Catholic as a Fellow of the University will generally be regarded as an unjust and premature crying of fire. The days have long passed when intelligent people seriously believed that the Roman Church could hope to dominate the educational system of the United States, the separation between Church and State has become so traditional in the United States that it seems certain to remain. Even Catholics cannot be so dead to the facts as to hope that one religious denomination can ever control the liberal universities and the schools of the country...