Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that year.) Again, the Californian is regarded as a leader for the dissenters within the Republican party?not the radical La Follettonian dissenters, but the conservative, League-abhorring, strict-isolationist group. Those who want such a leader would like to make the dinner in Senator Johnson's honor a protest against the World Court proposal and a jubilant first step towards the White House in 1925 for the great irreconcilable...
Next day longshoremen held a meeting and went out on strike as a protest. On the second day of the strike ship owners declared that only 200 men were out, the strike a fizzle...
...Protests of Negro organizations from many parts of the country, descending about the ears of a Senator, caused him to change his mind. Senator Capper of Kansas is leader of the farm bloc and of the "marriage bloc"-if such a thing there is. In the last Congress he brought forward a Constitutional Amendment and a supplementary bill to make marriage and divorce laws uniform throughout the country. One of the provisions of the bill prohibited " marriage between members of the white and black races or of the white and yellow races." Letters of protest-from Negroes have since poured...
Robert Williams, General Secretary of the Transport Workers: "War with France is nearer today than war with Germany was in 1911. We cannot desist from criticism of and protest against the wanton policy pursued by France in destroying the economic integrity of Europe. The working class must seek to establish a real democratic diplomacy. We must challenge the assumption that Poincare speaks for France any more than Curzon for England. Unity of the working class is the only means of preventing...
...distinction of being the last champion that the world will acknowledge, since the tournament will never again dignify its winner with the distinguished title. Owing to protest from the United States Lawn Tennis Association there will henceforth be no world's champion ship tournament in tennis...