Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protest by J. Frank Chase, Secretary of the Watch and Ward Society is one of the theories advanced, but this is refuted by a vigorous denial by Mr. Chase. "We had absolutely nothing to do with the suppression of the Lampoon," said Mr. Chase, "We knew nothing about it; obsolutely nothing. We never had any question about it. We made no complaint and heard none. It is not our business. We concern ourselves in the houses of ill fame, opium dens, gambling houses, and so forth, but we had absolutely nothing to do with the suppression of the Lampoon...
...nationwide students' strike was called. It was limited in the Provinces to expressions of sympathy, but, in the French metropolis, practically all the students in the Quartier Latin were enjoying the rest of a quiet strike. Upward of 10,000 of them paraded the streets as an orderly protest against the Government...
...Zionist Jewry considers of the utmost importance in the growth of what may be called modern Is- rael. He arrived several days before the opening ceremony, was met en- thusiastically by the Jewish communities and by the Arabs with a parade of mourning and the silence of grief, a protest against the Bal- four Declaration...
...More and more money is pouring in from scattered Jewry to Modern Israel. The Jews are showing an energy which contrasts sharply with Arab apathy. Everywhere small communities are developing the land. Great arid tracts arc being turned into fertile farms, while the Arabs, comparatively poor, do little but protest. Land is sold over the Arab fellahs' (peasants) heads by their rich brethren. Willingly they part with dry belts and swamps only to see them fertilized by irrigation and drainage. All Arabdom sees its native land being snatched from it. As between the Arabs and the Jews, since cooperation seems...
...growth of grass and American tourist travel, many of the stones have become either missing or mutilated. Its been so long too--oh, almost three hundred and fifty years now--that things have just been drifting along in Greece. It may seem unsympathetic to make any strong statement of protest against the project, for the Greeks have the ambition and the cement, and they can probably do a pretty decent job of restoration, if they don't lose interest and start a war. But the main trouble is they haven't got the Elgin marbles, the Parthenon's most distinctive...