Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from voting on the amendment. The vote showed 55 Senators in favor of the Borah amendment, and none opposed. In the passage of the completed measure, the vote was almost as unanimous-73 to 3. Senator Borah, however, was one of the three voting in the negative, in verbal protest against spending $60,000,000 more. No one was deceived in the real intent and purpose of the Borah amendment. Its relation to postal salaries is purely formal and entirely secondary. Its purpose is to keep tab on both parties during the coming campaign. A few days later the House...
...Lord's and the fullness thereof," and "The profit of the earth is for all." Nevertheless, the bill was not taken seriously, was defeated 176 to 164 votes. ¶The subject of a reduction of Minister for Labor Tom Shaw's salary by ?100 (Conservative protest against Labor's inactive unemployment policy) was again brought up (TIME, June 2). The Premier made it evident that the Government would resign if it were defeated. Referring to the Opposition he said: "If they think they are going to benefit Europe and their own country, as well as have...
Following this announcement, the Japanese Foreign Office cabled to Ambassador Hanihara a note of protest to be transmitted to the U. S. Government, charging that the exclusion provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924 were contrary to the spirit of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation concluded between the U.S. and Japan...
...Accordingly, His Imperial Majesty's Government consider it their duty to maintain and to place on record their solemn protest against the discriminatory clause in Section 13 (C) of the Immigration Act of 1924, and to request the American Government to take all possible and suitable measures for the removal of such discrimination...
American jazz artists, much incensed, expect a protest from Secretary Hughes. Vincent Lopez, famed Manhattan jazz conductor, ejaculated: "If this is official action by the French Government it is a slap at America. It seems hardly possible that such could be the case...