Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot condone in silence the reprinting on your letter page of a scurrilous anti-Catholic campaign verse, directly under a letter from a Catholic Sister who cancels her subscription in protest against your original printing of this doggerel. If the Presidency of the United States were being contested by a Buddhist and a Mohammedan, I should wish TIME to print no shocking, versified allusion to the sacred "Beard of the Prophet...
...sharply to Smith. Farm unrest impeded a compensating swing to Hoover in the west. To St. Joseph, on the extreme western edge of Missouri, went Campaigner Hughes to praise the Hoover record, to admit that "the Republican Party was betrayed in its own house" (the Oil Scandals) but to protest that "there is no issue on honesty" between Hoover and Smith; to call the Democrats "a party of abandoned issues" (including the League of Nations, which Mr. Hughes himself abandoned), to jibe at the Democrats' declarations on the Tariff, to imply that the Smith farm program was "political quackery...
Obviously, the U. S. runner had won the race, but after watching Dorando wriggling to the finish like a wounded fly, no one wished Hayes to have the prize. The Italian flag went up; the U. S. protest was allowed at 8 in the evening. British newspapers scored the decision of the committee; the Queen of England gave each of the runners a bronze medal, and the king from nearby Windsor sent each one an oak wreath...
...athletic administration, has already done its work so far as Brown is concerned by the absence of the Brown game in 1928. There would be no cry of intersectionalism to answer in a decision to revive the relations of these two New England football teams. There would be no protest of overemphasis, for the game could not be one pointed to throughout the season. The danger of creating a fixture has already been settled by breaking this year the long consecutive meetings of the two universities...
...peace, and fined for distributing printed material "calculated to provoke a breach of the peace". Rather than pay the fine, he is now in jail serving out $26.40 at the rate of $1.00 a day. And to cap the climax, the mayor of Little Rock answers a telegram of protest. "No atheist will be permitted to maintain headquarters in Little Rock, Ark., if I can prevent...