Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politics. In the normal course of events it was expected that this plan would have aroused the antagonism of Pacifist organizations, but since these are generally rather severely in the minority, no great to-do was anticipated. The Pacifist protest came. President Coolidge answered it, and ordinarily that would have closed the incident...
...away from their daily occupations. He added parenthetically that we had "saved several wars by not being prepared." Whether or not Governor Bryan was trying to engender an issue, one cannot say. But there is no doubt that the greater part of the significance of Governor Bryan's protest resulted from his place on the Democratic ticket...
...Vigorous protest is being directed also against the militarizing tendency of this demonstration and particularly its influence upon our youth...
Roman beggars sent a resolution of protest to the Pope. The dress reform edict, they say, has cut down church attendance, has reduced their income...
...Britain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, growls of protest swelled to a swirling roar of indignation. Even in the U. S. voices were not silent. A Unamuno letter was recently sent to the press, accompanied by a hot letter from Judge Peter J. Hamilton of Porto Rico. Don Unamuno's letter, in part: "I have been exiled here, having-been given twenty-four hours to abandon my house, without judicial writ, not even of a military judge ; without any proceeding and without telling...