Word: protested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just four months in jail. Some weeks ago Speed-Fiend Nicholas crashed into a taxicab and in pettish rage" kicked the chauffeur severely under the stomach so that the unfortunate man had to be rushed to the city hospital. One Mircea Damian wrote to the local newspapers in protest, not only calling Prince Nicholas bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend, but adding...
This reasoning brought a loud rumble of protest from the square jaw of Hon. William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...command to build was issued by the I.C.C. at the request of the Oregon Public Service Commission and over the protest of the Union Pacific. The new line would connect Crane, Ore., on the Oregon Short Line (subsidiary of Union Pacific) with Crescent Lake, Ore., on the Southern Pacific. Its proponents declare that it will open up a potentially rich region in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, while its railroad opponents see the new line as economically unsound. Cost of construction is estimated at $9,900,000. The fundamental principle involved?whether the I.C.C. can command as well...
...relative merits of various professional and amateur players. Those who champion the cause of Karel Kozeluh, king of the professional world, will have an opportunity to see if their choice really is better than Henri Cochet, wizard of the amateur courts, or if, as many will loudly protest, the latter is in a class by himself...
Paradox of the debate: Anglo-Soviet rapprochement was vigorously though un successfully championed by the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, who thundered: "I favor the creation of some direct channel through which we may protest the Soviet oppression of ministers of religion...