Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students, representing themselves as speak'ing for a mass meeting of 900 New York City students, called upon the President to protest against U. S. policy in China. Newspapermen learned that the President, in all kindness, advised them to increase their knowledge of oriental affairs by going to China...
...such a letter as this should be completely superfluous. All that I have said is evident to most children of ten upon first glancing over TIME. Unfortunately this does not seem to be the case with one or two of your new readers. It is to drown their minority protest that I speak out for the old guard. RAYMOND MACAULAY TREVELIAN...
...Among the first to read Mme. Calvé's protest was William J. Guard, kindly press agent of the Metropolitan, who watches over his flock like a mother hen. He fumed, he fussed, he ruffled his feathers, flapped his great wings, said...
...Senator William E. Borah as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations came a protest last week from 110 Protestant Episcopal Bishops of the U.S. against the U.S. ratification of the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey. The bishops, headed by Bishop William T. Manning of Manhattan, would have no relations whatsoever with "an avowedly unrepentant and anti-Christian government which destroyed a million inoffensive Christian men, women and children," and still holds "in Turkish harems thousands of Christian women and children." Certain routine Turkish atrocities were detailed...
...real provocation to offer as reason, the right of free speech and free assembly, guaranteed in both the constitutions of the nation and of New Jersey, has been denied not only to strikers, but to reputable lawyers and pacific clergymen. That such a situation can exist, even under protest, would rather suggest there are, still extant, reasons for wondering at the reflection of function to which democratic government has attained...