Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both industries. In Cuba it is sometimes said that the National City, Bank (New York) runs the sugar industry and the Rockefeller-Morgan interests run the railroads. Colonel Tarafa's interests lie with the latter. Cuban industry, much more honest than Cuban politics, is beginning to rise in protest against Colonel Tarafa's steamroller tactics in putting his bill through...
...which politicians are rejoicing since the ratification of the Five-Power Naval Treaty ran seriously counter to the plans of the Navy Department. The Budget Bureau lopped off $70,000,000 of the needs of the Department as estimated by the General Board. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt took a protest over this action to President Coolidge, on the grounds that such a course would take us down from our proper place in the 5-5-3 ratio...
...over the consolidated railways or by shipment over the sugar companies' roads with a graduated tax of from five to twenty cents per hundredweight on the sugar shipped-a tax that the sugar companies say is prohibitive. The sugar companies and certain copper interests in like position are protesting at Washington that the Tarafa Bill is conflscatory and are asking intervention. It happens that the Cuban public railroads are also owned in large part by Americans. The railroad companies would profit by the bill. So their representatives are also in Washington, protesting against the sugar companies' protest. Colonel...
...Woman on the Jury. When friends are gathered together in the name of courtroom melodrama one is bound to grant certain of the author's requests. One cannot protest that he has met the District Attorney so many times "before that he really would prefer a change; likewise the counsel for the defense; and the Irish detective. But the woman in the jury box is a newcomer, and for her sake it was that this program of events was scheduled...
...incident, coming on top of many others (TIME, July 9, Aug. 13), aroused a storm of protest against Americans in the Paris press...