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...Total disarmament and, in case of aggression, a protest to all the Powers-that is our best-our only adequate defense...
...President Machado or other officials. Later Chase Vice President Shepard Morgan admitted that General Enoch Crowder, then U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, had given "a horseback opinion that the $100,000,000 project would be in violation of the Platt Amendment" and that he had "threatened immediate protest to the State Department.'' This particular loan was never made, but not long afterwards while ex-President Machado's son-in-law was a Chase new-business man in Havana on a salary of $19,000 a year, other loans were made. It was also learned that a former...
...other states, as, for example, the postmaster of Chicago, who was uprooted from a useful career in the same bland and cavalier fashion, if not to the honor, at least to the glory, of the Democratic party. There is in further background the Portland postmaster of happy memory, whose protest against Lord Woodrow and demand for back salary piqued the Supreme Court into its historic rumble that the power to appoint connotes the power to remove, though a hundred Pendletons block the path...
Because the white man, one Phineas Mackintosh, was admittedly guilty of debauching native girls, fair-minded Britons stormed in protest and when the young chief left his native village for temporary exile the wives of white settlers rushed forward to shake his hand-a tribute to native rectitude unprecedented in the annals of South Africa...
...initial mistake of closing Widener at six on weekdays, and all day Sunday, remains as glaring, and as unnecessary, as it ever was when it raised up indignant and sounding protest a year ago. It entails inconvenience and continual hurry for those who cannot do without the reading rooms, and smothers all enthusiasm for doing optional work in them, an enthusiasm which Widener's neo-classic dinginess does not breed very readily in any case. In order to make the use of the Harvard Library a civilized convenience and not a painful duty for the undergraduate, it should be kept...