Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Filipinos, like U. S. farmers, have suffered lately and are crying for aid -more however on account of crop losses than prices-but General Wood did not regard the situation as sufficiently serious to warrant abandonment of penalties for nonpayment of taxes. The Legislature is expected to rise in protest-the Governor having departed for Java. The weathermen shook their heads: " Cloudy, with more stormy weather in the offing...
...Floyd Williams Tomkins, President of the Friends of Korea in America and a leading clergyman of Philadelphia, filed a protest with U. S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, against Japanese inhumanity in killing Koreans in Japan during the earthquake...
James W. Gerard, former U. S. Ambassador to Germany: "As protest against the Lausanne Treaty, I gave a lunch to 50 distinguished men at the Yale Club, Manhattan. The sense of the meeting as reported was that if the Senate ratifies the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey, the Stars and Stripes will be trailed in the mud by the weakest and lowest of all nations...
...leasing land, is bound to be irritating to the Japanese Government. It is understood that the Japanese Government is about to make overtures for a treaty that would nullify these laws. To add a complete bar to Japanese desiring to enter the country is bound to produce vigorous protest from Japan...
...this day when investigation into the affairs of Victoria is pursued internationally with as much zeal as scientists exert in ascertaining the private life of the paramecium, it is rather exciting to see her come to life upon the stage. Though the authors (Walter Prichard Eaton and David Carb) protest volubly that the play is not a dramatization of Strachey, it is the readers of his book who will be particularly attracted. The play has caught all the quaint charm of the girl who developed retiring domesticity into a regal legend. It was Strachey who popularized the legend in America...