Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sudden rise in the price of sugar from 7 to 10 cents a pound has created a great movement of protest throughout the country. Four Federal agencies and one non-partisan political organization have already begun inquiries into the alleged sugar corner, and all expect to find evidence of manipulation through monopoly which will be brought before a Grand Jury. The five agencies investigating the so-called " sugar steal...
Following the Commissioner's message, two protests were immediately made. The American Indian Defense Society in Manhattan asserted that if the program is carried out, the Indians will be compelled to abandon traditions as old as their race, and will be denied freedom in worshiping the gods of their ancestors. The other protest came from the Yakimo tribe in the State of Washington. Its chief in announcing the usual spring dances declared: " You say, ' Farm as the white man does' and ' Save your money as the white man does.' . . . When you stop the white...
...protest against a reduction of $24,500,000 in next year's budget for military expenditure, General Kenichi Oshima, addressing the House of Peers, said that it was "the height of folly to imagine that the cutting of armaments would ensure peace. World peace is best maintained when nations are armed to the hilt! " His explosion will not, however, affect the departmental estimates...
...Otto H. Kahn refused to attend a private reading last Sunday of Eeigen, Schnitzler's outspoken drama, which the New York Green Room Club was to give in his honor. His refusal followed a letter of protest from Charles S. Sumner, President of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. According to Mr. Sumner, the play's performance in Berlin last year was the cause of rioting. It is answered that the rioting was not that of protesting virtue, but of eager spectators trying...
Sacco is on hunger strike now as a protest against being kept in jail so long without sentence after his conviction of a crime of which he con- tends he is innocent. Counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti have made five motions for new trials, based on new evidence, discrediting of former testimony, and exceptions taken during the first trial. All of these motions are scheduled to be heard within a week...