Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creative powers have reached a dramatic maturity. To abandon the latter seems regrettable. But disregarding the mooted wisdom of the decision, the Dramatic Club is to he commended for its honest effort to meet the needs of the present situation, instead of adding to the crowded files of ineffectual protest...
China suffers from the opium trade more than all other nations together, and she had everything to gain from the success of the conference. Her withdrawal was made only after desperate protest and when there was no prospect of establishing any understanding that would not legalize the drug trade for some years to come. European nations, she discovered, found the business too profitable to be abandoned. They pleaded the impossibility of preventing the trade, but, when faced with Japan's successful prohibition in Formosa, were forced to admit two significant facts: the traffic yields large tariff revenues in the colonies...
...struggle that developed was not inspired from without. It arose entirely within the small circle which circumscribes the President and the Senate. The President chose his nominee. The Senate objected to Mr. Warren?objected on its own initiative, for, during the entire contest, no protest against him was filed with the Judiciary Committee...
...Senate fought President Coolidge to a standstill; and as the dust settles the result begins to draw interest. Without warning and without protest, John G. Sargent has been raised in a twinkling to the Attorney-generalship. Unexpectedly nominated and immediately approved by the Senate, he is already at work on his new duties. It is, indeed, a relief to find such harmony restored within the administration; but whence is this man to whose appointment there is no whisper of opposition? What is his past record, and what his qualifications...
...What are my crimes and that of my Government? We are laymen and we are fighting for laicism, which is not an aggressive doctrine. We stand for freedom of conscience and we protest when in this 20th Century an attempt is made in the name of dogma to constrain conscience and when we are told, as our ancestors were told in the Middle Ages, that Science and Liberty are idols...