Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Altogether, Mr. Glynn-Ward and Senor Blanco make out a strong case against the commonplace stereotypes of modern romances. If some patriot American critic would only file a protest against the poor-but-honest serving girl and the white-haired general of industry who invariably appears in the middle of the morning in full dress, the indictment would be complete...
...Governors of Utah and Maine conferred in secret. Next day Governor Sweet of Colorado injected into the proceedings a memorial on prohibition. It declared that the Governors favored prohibition enforcement and that prohibition had already improved conditions in their respective states. At once the Wets rose to protest, led by Governors Parker of Louisiana, Silzer of New Jersey and Blaine of Wisconsin. The matter was dropped and the conference adjourned at 11:00 p. m. Then Governor Sweet and Governor Pinchot with Governor Trinkle of Virginia retired to redraft their resolution. Governor Sweet declared the product of their work...
...position of the Berlin Government was most obscure. Beyond making a protest to the French authorities for the disarming of the German police in Bonn, Chancellor Stresemann maintained an ominous silence. The French returned the arms they had seized to the police...
Indignant resolutions of protest from a special Faculty committee...
...same paper (The News of the World) is printing a daily article " by one of his former companions in distress." Respectable papers (like The Times) protest: " There is an end to all prison discipline if every prisoner is allowed to carry on the profession of journalism from his cell. . . . Are these indulgences extended to every prisoner with a literary turn...