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...Indiana, it seemed, arose in angry protest. Senator James Eli Watson and the state's entire Congressional delegation pleaded with "General" Brown to withdraw his threat. Loudly they pointed out that the Post Office Department had no authority to change a village's name and that so long as the people of Santa Claus wanted to be Santa Clausians, their post office should stay Santa Claus...
When Dr. David Saville Muzzey called Georgia's 18th Century colonists "poor debtors and criminals" in his History of the American People he raised a tempest of protest from Georgia's 20th Century citizens. Fortnight ago when the Savannah Board of Education decided to ask Publishers Ginn & Co. to make corrections Historian Muzzey stood his ground, called the protest "just a manifestation of local pride" (TIME, Dec. 28). But last week good-natured Dr. Muzzey changed his mind. To the Savannah Board he wrote a friendly letter announcing that in future editions of the history the phrase would...
...received. Mr. Stimson, having come off second best in all his diplomatic skirmishes thus far with Japan (TIME, Dec. 7). decided last week not to risk another note or even another statement to the press. Secretly he cabled U. S. Ambassador William Cameron Forbes to convey secretly an "oral protest" to the Japanese Government...
...Nanking Government, these leaders might be slain by soldiers still loyal to General Chiang who would set himself up again as President. Meanwhile Nanking weltered in a series of patriotic riots by Chinese "students" who have not studied for months, preferring to hurl bricks and assault Chinese statesmen in protest against their "weak policy...
...subjects." and "poor but honest debtors." Said he: "I have never cared to enter controversies. . . . There was no shadow of an idea in my mind of casting any aspersions on the people of Georgia. . . . It is a just manifestation of local pride that the Savannah Board of Education should protest...