Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most distressing symptom, however, is the attitude of some well-to-do and intelligent people who protest against the justice and wisdom of the law, and who treat with levity its violations when such violations serve to furnish them the wines and liquors they wish to have for their own enjoyment...
Seven hundred masked Ku Klux Klansmen paraded at Tuskegee, Alabama, to protest the installation of Negro physicians at a Negro war veterans' hospital there...
...political situation is still in a state of confusion. The Presidency is unfilled, although Li Yuan-Hung continues to protest that he is President. The Government exists but does not function. The Tuchuns plot and prepare for war, which, it seems, cannot be long delayed...
...Gentleman's Church. The Right Rev. Charles H. Brent, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Western New York, spoke to 200 young churchmen at the Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia. These young men are considering going into the ministry, but are not committed to it. Bishop Brent gave them the following bon-mots: " The Protestant Episcopal Church needs a shaking up." " It is too closely identified with those who call themselves gentlemen." "Don't let society coddle you. What you are to do is to study what society is thinking and doing, and correct it in the places where...
Miss Nadeja Stancioff, recently appointed First Secretary of the Bulgarian Legation in Washington, reputed to be Europe's only lady-diplomat, resigned as a protest over the death of her former chief, Stambuliski...