Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position in the Chamber was in any case unsatisfactory ; for, according to the last election, they shared only one third of the seats with the other opposition parties. Their withdrawal, from the Chamber, therefore, in no sense affected the political situation. But they had hoped by their noncooperation protest to force the Government out. Instead, the Government grew stronger and the Aventine Opposition, as it is called, withered under the scorching blasts of Mussolini invectives and devices...
...Outcry. Following the appearance of these statements, the Herald-Tribune began to publish letters of protest...
...exercises are to include religious services at the grave of the "Unknown Patriot" who committed hara-kiri (suicide by evisceration) near the grounds of the old U. S. Embassy as a protest against "the exclusion of Japanese from the U. S." Mass meetings and other pacific demonstrations are scheduled and a list of names of representative Japanese, together with their opinions, are to be collected in a book, translated, sent to U. S. Congressmen, Chambers of Commerce, newspapers...
...manifesto, issued by the Professors of the National University of Peking, laid the cause of the anti-alien agitation to the British, whom they charged with wantonly shooting innocent boy and girl students who were parading in protest against the conviction of Chinese strikers in Japanese cotton-factories (TIME, June 15). The British contended that the students and their sympathizers were shot after warning when they attacked the Interrational Police Force at Shanghai. The Peking Foreign Office, while charging all the foreign Powers with responsibility for the shootings which began the trouble, reject the British contention. John A. Brailsford, correspondent...
Female teachers having continued to multiply in England during the . past year, a despatch from London last week stated that the seceding males (the National Association of Schoolmasters) had again aired their masculinity, pointing their resolution this time with a protest against the inspection of boys' physical training classes by women...