Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lover of good music and a lover of fair play, I protest against the sneer at Irving Berlin in TIME of May 10, p. 18. I fail to see why the cafe in which the little boy earned his living should be dragged out again and again for the sole purpose of insulting one of our real musical geniuses...
...Representative Crumpacker, Oregon Congressman, called at the White House to protest to the President against the sale of the Admiral Line by the Shipping Board to the Dollar shipping interests. Senator Copeland, New York's Democratic Senator, called on the President to explain his bill for preventing strikes in the anthracite industry. A committee of the National Training Camps Association called to discuss the costs of summer military training. Speaker Longworth called to tell the President that he hoped Congress could adjourn by the middle of June...
...which the Latin nations hoped to "put teeth into the League." Britain, aware that the U. S. possesses an antipathy to joining a league whose "teeth" might become U. S. soldiers, sidetracked the Protocol, for which was substituted the "regional" Locarno security agreements. The Latin nations continue to protest that teeth must be put into the League before it can bite the armed enemies of peace...
They pinned it on the faded bathrobe and waited for him to say something, waited several minutes before the tired, grizzly man, tears in his eyes, could thank them, protest that he had done "nothing to deserve this unusual distinction...
...Southern California, took up the issue. Phrases like this were flaunted under the noses of the deans: "Religious compulsion is a contradiction in terms. . . ." "You can beat a student to his knees, but you cannot make him pray." "We have a body of men who go to chapel under protest to sleep, read, or merely to sit in bovine passiveness while the choir sings and the leader reads and prays." So effective was the agitation that three student bodies voted against required chapel in the fall...