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Word: protests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...medals and decorations of the late Sir John Cowans, Quartermaster General of the British Army during the war, were offered for sale by order of Sir John's executors, despite Lady Cowans' protest. The proceeds were to pay his debts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Soldier's Medals | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...late Stuyvesant Fish reported in favor of reducing the number of hours. In 1921 Judge Gary said: " We expect to make the elimination of the twelve-hour day complete during the next year." But the recent adverse report of the Iron and Steel Institute, according to the protest of the indignant churches, "shatters public confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Long? | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...been accused of destroying the undergraduate morale, of slighting the other departments to the advantage of his own subject, Geography, and in general of exerting a reactionary and negative influence on his college. He has roused the antagonism of prominent members of his faculty, as their recent formal protest showed; the Commencement Exercises revealed the antipathy of the students; and his unfortunate act of stopping the Scott Nearing talk a year ago roused the disfavor of fair-minded people throughout the country. Yet there are no indications that his term is to be ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEIKLEJOHN AND ATWOOD | 6/16/1923 | See Source »

...Congress unconstitutional by a 5-4 majority? Even the most conservative papers declare that a 6-3 or a 7-2 majority should be necessary to overrule Congress. "The country will cheerfully take law from six or seven Justices that it will not take from five Justices without protest. This may not be altogether consistent, but it squares with human nature." Opponents of the 5-4 decision point out that "Mr. Taft has yet to show cause why a 6-3 decision is not better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: The Text: Chase. | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...bumper is a spiked belt de-signed to keep the amorous at a respectable distance. The deterrent is three projecting steel bars about three inches in length. French maidens have entered no public protest at this attempt to rail them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plus de Modestie | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

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