Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 4, Jackson became President and appointed Eaton his Secretary of War. Washington society turned fiercely upon Mrs. Eaton, refused to accept her, slandered her morals. President Jackson took her side, as did Secretary of State Van Buren. Van Buren and Eaton resigned from the Cabinet as a protest, Van Buren becoming President later, thanks to Jackson's support, which he gained largely in the Peggy Eaton case...
...wish to enter a protest against your use of dashes in your Letters columns when you delete profanity. I approve the deletions, but I see no good reason why you should pique the curiosity of your occasionally profane readers by having all dashes of equal length...
...TIME, April 1), attended by blaring brass bands and wildly cheering throngs. Never before have Princes of the Church shepherded their clergy and people to vote in a Parliamentary Election of the present Italian Kingdom. Always before the priesthood has abstained, urging their flocks to do likewise, in protest against the Government's suppression of the Pope's temporal power in 1870. Recently, however, Il Duce has restored a mite of earthly authority to Il Papa (TIME, Feb. 18), and last week purring cinema machines proved how mountainous is the Pontiff's gratitude to the Dictator. Especially vivid and stirring...
...queer quirk in the whole situation was that Japan, which for months has stubbornly kept an interventionary force in Shantung, disregarding incessant Nationalist howls of protest, suddenly came to terms last week with the shaky and harassed Nationalist Government and entered into a signed agreement to withdraw her slit-eyed marines by June 1. It is common knowledge that Japan has financed and favored Marshal Chang, the captor of Chefoo, but it would be news indeed if the Imperial Government con- siders Chang already strong enough to see that Japanese interests and colonists in Shantung come to no harm during...
...spring of the year at Harvard it has almost become a tradition for the supporters of minor sports to object that spring football takes too many men from the regular athletics of that season. They protest that if this practice of playing football for the three most crucial weeks in the final college semester were abolished, it would be possible for Harvard to assume a role of greater importance in such sports as lacrosse. Ignoring the fact that crew is the most popular spring athletic, activity, the supporters of this belief hold that the men who would be released...