Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William A. Brady was one of the most picturesque arguers before the Committee. This theatrical producer came to protest against the admissions tax on the legitimate drama. Said...
...took no notice of the fact that three Nationalist Cabinet members had resigned as a protest against the pacts (TIME, Nov. 2). He "carried on" with a "rump" cabinet and drew fire from the Socialist Vorwaerts as follows: "It is naive indeed for the present Government's supporters to behave as though nothing had happened and Luther must remain the eternal Chancellor of the German Republic...
...Manassa, Colo., (birth town of Pugilist Jack Dempsey) members of the school board proposed to name the new high school "The Jack Dempsey School." Came a fierce protest from the American Legion. "A direct affront-yes, an insult-to every World War veteran," said the Chairman of the Denver District Rehabilitation Committee...
...many years it has been a Boston tradition that Freshmen should not be invited to debutante dances. Of late, however, hostesses have been departing from this rule, to the consequent alarm of the parents of Freshmen, the Dean's office, and the Lampoon. Lampy's protest is given in part below...
...singers than ever before is inevitable, they pointed out; he has most of the good ones now. But significant is the fact that in the thin receiving-line of operatic debutantes there are three Americans. This is Manager Gatti-Casazza's second answer to the drone of those who protest that the Metropolitan ignores native talent. His first?a remark made last year?was: "Find me an American Caruso, bring me the score of a U. S. Meistersinger...