Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator Stalin would demand the "lease" of several small Finnish islands near Leningrad and that this would have to be yielded in exchange for trade favors, but in case Moscow demands to lease the Aland Islands, owned by Finland dominating Stockholm, all Scandinavia was expected to join Finland in protest. "Moscow's demands on Finland are followed with the greatest interest in Sweden," said Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet. "If the Soviet thinks she can treat Finland as she has the Baltic countries recently, it will arouse . . . not only Scandinavia but the whole civilized world, and not least...
Concerning the widespread protest aroused by the dismissal of the ten assistant professors, the memorandum says: "The men lot go were commonly "runners up" for permanent positions--men who lost out in competition, occasionally by very narrow margins...
Last month, noting the fact that he had served longer than anyone else in California for such an offense, the parole board paroled him. But public protest induced Governor Culbert Olson to ask the board to rescind the action...
...department store in London, interrupted a Welsh Guardsman at the biscuit counter: "Are you buying biscuits, too?" No, said the Guardsman, he was getting a camp bed and a few warm things. Tickled to be in harness again, the Duke bought the articles over the officer's protest, selfconsciously announced: "Go ahead. It's all right. I'm your Colonel-in-Chief...
...Greece, a gesture in the Allies' favor. A few days earlier Italy and Greece had both moved back from the Greco-Albanian frontier. Italy sent an Ambassador, Giuseppe Bastianini, to the Court of St. James's, where she has had none since June. Italy made no protest last week when the British stopped an Italian ship at Gibraltar and confiscated cargoes destined for Germany. Italian trade boomed, with export orders far above normal. A new airline began operating from Naples to The Netherlands Indies and Australia. Passenger steamers were booked to capacity and passengers ruefully reported that prices...