Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...counteraccusation. Ellis Island, which receives by far the greater share of the immigrants, has accommodations for only 1,700 at a time. When 15,000 arrive in one day the station is "swamped." Immigration officials accuse the steamship lines of bringing hardships upon the immigrants. In England there are protests about the " brutality " of Ellis Island. Senators inveigh. Steamship officials protest that they are doing their best to mollify conditions under the present...
Candace and Bousse, Deputies, colored, prepared to raise a storm of anti-American protest in the Chamber. Supporting them, the French...
William Randolph Hearst, largest individual landowner in Mexico, has filed a formal protest with the State Department at Washington against the threatened seizure of his Barbicora ranch of 333,000 acres by the Farm Commission of the state of Chihuahua...
...protest in Washington places his estates on the list of seized properties discussed by the Recognition Conference, just at the moment when it was thought that the most difficult of the problems discussed were on the way to solution...
...gauntlet to the tradition that a newspaper must give the public what it wants. The Spectator had built up an audience of conservative people, and now these people are served with both Conservatism and Socialism. It is disconcerting to the constant readers of The Spectator, and some of them protest volubly by letter. Mr. Strachey still braves these protestants, and is called a traitor for his pains...