Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give a few specific facts. In May, the receipts from second-class mail fell off 4.68% from May of the year previous. This class of mail (newspapers and periodicals) had been the largest burden (loss) to the Post Office. But publishers howled so bitterly in protest against a raise of rate, and the politicians were so afraid of them, that second-class rates, although juggled a bit, were not really increased ?as the above result shows...
...last week Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Klan, directed the Colorado Klan to hold all the Klan's funds and property subject to his orders. This property included a $60,000 interest in a cotton mill. Again a large body of local Klansmen rose up in protest. At a meeting at which Dr. Locke was not present, they turned in their Klan membership cards, and took out membership in "The Minute Men of America,"* an organization which was described as fostering similar ideals...
...State Superintendent has already ruled against it, while prominent New York insurance brokers and underwriters protest on the ground that it deprives the insuring public of the privilege of selecting the insurance company and the terms under which the contracts are written...
Some ladies protest. Say they: "I can reduce my diet but I can't reduce my figure." Some gentleman have scoffed. But the ladies may justify their assertion with some show of cogency by pointing to some figures issued by the Treasury last week...
Shortly after the protest was made, TIME appended to an excerpt from the advertisement a notice to the effect that "this advertisement will positively not appear again...