Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been pushed into the background "by all sorts of enterprises that have their origin in emotionalism, in ignorance, or in mere vanity." A great deal of what Mr. Butler says about our plumbing for the full and free expression among the school children is sound. Sound is his protest against our forgetting the principle that every generation can only climb higher by standing "on the shoulders of its predecessors." But this very surrender to emotionalism, to ignorance, or to mere vanity is proof of a desire to teach not the secret of making a living but the secret...
What the outcome will be no one can say. Most likely the protest will be ignored by the League. The strategic value to France of the districts is too great to be disregarded, and there are limits even to self-determination. Very likely if the provinces are consulted, they may be persuaded to stay with France after all. But the whole situation illustrates very well, how quickly and completely nations may undergo change, and the small part that grtaitude plays in international relations...
Various obstructions have been removed from the Square at different times by order of the court after a protest from the people. The hay scales and the town pump were removed in 1830. But does this prove that the present edifice is illegal, especially since the Elevated must have received a legal permit to put it there in the first place...
...step will be widespread in its effects. It is no longer war time. The people should be allowed this natural human right. It was in 1774 that the American colonists objected to the clause in the "Coercive Acts" which prevented free public meetings. We are still American enough to protest against such restrictions. Of course free speech should be allowed only so long as it does not interfere with other rights given us under the Constitution, so long as it does not incite people to violence and counsel overthrow of government. Curbing free speech only helps the cause of unbalanced...
...gratified to notice that Congressman Dallinger has sent a protest to Secretary of War Baker against the parole of former Lieutenant Frank H. Smith, known as "Hard-boiled Smith," who has been serving a sentence of a year and a half at the federal penitentiary, after having been found guilty of most cruel treatment of our soldiers...