Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States today is the daily press. Each newspaper aims to have its own investigation. The New York Daily Mirror revived the Hall-Mills mess only to provide four page accounts for the much more aristocratic Times. And now the New York World has started a national protest against lynching. The World's action is extremely notable, and one which is winning for the journal the recognition it deserves. The affair at Aiken, South Carolina, was a blot on the name of justice and the World is to be praised for having sent its personal representative down...
...book or magazine. Straightway the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, famous because it snubbed Hermann Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector of Duisburg (Rhineland) last week, to be classified as a "well-known singer," and deposed...
Owing to a filthy fog of soft coal smoke that descends inches deep upon Westmorly Hall early in the morning and rests there during the day, an emphatic protest has been registered by the dormitory inmates with the Cambridge Department of Public Safety...
...Canal has reversed the courses of two rivers and disrupted the drainage system of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River; 2) It has lowered the water level of the Great Lakes, spoiled harbors, endangered shipping; 3) It has vexed Canada, who of course has a right to protest interference with the Great Lakes...
...about 1806--more than a century after Yale had been founded in protest against the earlier unorthodoxy of Harvard--what was to become the Unitarian movement got the upper hand in control of the university. In the struggles of religious liberalism against orthodoxy that enlivened the beginnings of the nineteenth century the "Christ at Eclesiee" part of the motto was removed. Harvard was out for the truth no matter where...