Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When "the party of intelligence" undertakes tariff meddling with the business of intelligent men, it is apt to get into trouble. This old truth is freshly exemplified in the remarkable protest against the duties on books proposed by the Fordney bill, signed as it is by all the leading publishers of the United States. They state in the first place that they do not need higher rates on imparted books than those of the existing law, and have not asked for them. Next; they point out that, if the new system of "American valuation" were to be applied to books...
...very interesting tale artfullyand pieasantly told, is Miss Hurt's "Star Dust." Yet it is more than that, for like "Main Street" it present a vivid protest against the commonplaceness, the narrow mindedness, that holds the majority of us down to a life of anotony and mundane, materialist achievement. It is a clear cut cross section view of the experiences and struggles of one who, failing to attain for herself expression of herself, gives all that a woman can give that her daughter may grow up to know the freedom and deliciousness of being herself...
...year, working on the machines and running five or six miles on alternate days in the winter time. It undoubtedly requires time and equipment to teach men to row correctly. But to relax emphasis upon form and the finer points of the sport would call forth a storm of protest from three generations of Harvard oarsmen and from innumerable college men who believe in doing things well...
With the score tied, Harvard had an excellent opportunity to score. A decision by Eubanks that was patently and palpably wrong, brought the rally to a finish. The Harvard players didn't budge from their bench. Captain Emmons went out on the field and made his protest in a perfectly orderly manner. When he was overruled he went back to the bench and the Harvard team fought on. The game wasn't delayed more than ten seconds...
...present strike involving something like eighty percent of the book and job printing of the city of Boston, and affecting Cambridge establishments as well marks another protest on the part of organized labor against the reduction of prices. The unions resent what one official has termed an attempt at "arbitrarily taking money out of the workers' envelops and giving it to the printing-consuming public." It is clear that this strike is merely an instance of the time-honored demand for less work and more wages; but it holds peculiar significance for the college...