Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that some of President Harding's vacation advisers urged him to inaugurate an "open shop " campaign with a view to making the so-called "American plan " of labor policy a Republican plank in the next election. President Gompers of the A. F. of L. immediately issued an emphatic protest in which he compared the " open shop " advocates to the Italian Fascisti and wondered who would be their Mussolini...
Rome. Despite the anger of the populace, the Pope has decided that it would be futile to despatch a protest to Moscow and has refrained from so doing...
Asked this question, Sir John Butler, leader of the protest in the House, replied: "Is Sargent an American? He has lived here so long that I had forgotten...
...Fourteenth Amendment, or whichever the amendment is. Nothing, except the Bahamas, and there is nothing about the Bahamas as treated in the play to excite the thirst of the most bitter-ender of those who have paid their dollar and become members of the Association for Inneffectual but Vocal Protest against the (now it comes back to us) Eighteenth Amendment...
...stage has always gone its own way with neither abetment nor protest from across the footlights. The folk of that fanciful world attend quietly to their household duties, recking little of the envious eyes upon them. Lovers do their loving shyly but unaffectedly, make their pretty speeches, kiss their pretty kisses, with no thought of the thousand eyes intruding upon their sentimental privacy. It never occurs to the stage criminal that his audience might, were it so inclined, betray his secret. His trust is as implicit as it is touch- ing. Suppose, for instance, that you, leaping up from your...