Word: protests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...form of protest, the stockmen blew up 48 vats in Amite County, Miss., during the past few weeks. As a counterprotest the Bureau sent armed guards, and finally machine guns, to the spot. The only casualty so far was the killing of one cattleman as he was about to dynamite one of the vats. The Department of Agriculture is determined to bring about safe and sane cattle-raising, even at the point...
Meanwhile, the Mayor of Manila and the Secretary of the Interior also resigned as a protest. Then Manuel Luis Quezon led the whole Filipino Cabinet into Governor Wood's office and they all resigned because they had not been consulted on Conley's reinstatement. Quezon declared that...
...reason for this is, of course, that they are anxious to break the Japanese boycott now assuming serious proportions in the coastal provinces of China. The boycott was started as a protest against Japan's refusal to abrogate the 1915 treaty containing the famous 21 demands. (TiME, March 31, April...
...They requested an interview with President Obregon for the purpose of discussing the establishment of Italian colonies. Mexican Laborites, united in conference, denounced the Italians as Fascisti and voted to petition the President to refuse an interview to "reactionaries and enemies of labor." At the same meeting a Laborite protested against a proposed invitation to U. S. Rotary Clubs to hold a convention in Mexico City next year. He said that "silk-hatted, frock-coated Rotarian Fascisti from the United States were no less enemies of a socialistic revolutionary nation than the black-shirted Italians." The protest was carried amid...
...investigating committee of the American Bar Association) has more crimes than the entire Dominion of Canada, has never executed a woman. The two sentences come a few months after the infliction of the death penalty in England, and it is noteworthy that public sentiment does not appear to protest...