Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eligibility of the two Geneva athletes who transferred from the University of Pittsburg this year, was questioned recently by the Cornell authorities. According to the terms of the contract Harvard was scheduled to play Geneva under the rules of the visitors and no protest was made by the University officials, Director of Athletics W. J. Bingham '16 wrote to Geneva merely to clear the question and yesterday received the answer in the form of a definite statement to the effect that neither of the two men will participate against the University eleven. Johnson has already left Geneva and has returned...
...Over the protest of Democratic Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland, President Coolidge reappointed to the Tariff Commission Henry H. Classie,* likewise Maryland Democrat...
After similar speeches of restrained but vigorous protest by Dr. Unden of Sweden, Jonkheer J. Loudon of the Netherlands and others, an oral vote was called...
...Republican Party cannot afford - to permit Colonel Smith's perverted ambition to lose a seat in the Sen ate to the party and to the National Administration. "If Colonel Smith doesn't accept the inevitable and resign, the Republican voters should place in the field as a protest candidate a strong, clean Republican on an Administration anticorruption platform. Personally, I should be happy to support such a candidate." In New London, Conn., Col. Frank L. Smith, recuperating from an illness, read his papers, said curtly: "I do not feel called upon to answer Julius Rosenwald or any other...
...With reference to your communication . . . you have rightfully exercised your right of petition by applying to one of those able to initiate laws, but I must sincerely tell you that I am the least fitted person to comply with the said petition ... as the constitutional articles you protest against are in perfect accord with my philosophical and political conviction...