Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trying to secure the release of the men imprisoned in this country for breaking wartime laws, is going to try a new method of securing its ends. The petition to President Harding of 52 notables (TiME, June 11) brought no results. Now the Amnesty Committee is preparing more vigorous protest...
During a debate Lady Astor persisted in transgressing a parliamentary rule by reading a supplementary question. Laborites were loud in protest. The Speaker called the honorable lady to order. He suggested tactfully that she should hand her question in to him. Said Lady Astor with enough heat to give her meaning a double entente: "I'll give it to you! I'll let you have it." She did. The Laborites cheered derisively...
Wine growers are planning a protest...
...attempted justification is made on grounds of economic necessity, the shortage of labor and the fact that a shorter shift would force up the price of steel. The strongest argument of the churches is that economic laws "cannot demand an equal position with the laws of justice." The protest concludes: "A further report is due from the Iron and Steel Institute?a report of a very different tenor." How soon the "report of a different tenor" will be issued Is unknown. Meanwhile the cry goes up: "How long, O Lord...
Historically, American Unitarianism rose in protest against the extreme Calvinism of the Massachusetts theologians. Rhode Island was settled by Baptists; Connecticut, by Thomas Hooker?" liberal" in his theology (1637). For over one hundred years the liberal and the conservative Calvinists remained in the Congregational churches of New England. In 1800, however, in historic old Plymouth, the Unitarians formed a congregation of their own. In 1819. William Ellery Channing set up five points of Unitarianism vs. the five major emphases of Calvinism, and the splitting up of congregations was rapid...