Search Details

Word: protestable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...front page, in large type, without comment. This high-handed order won a lot of votes for the extremists. Even moderate editors sympathizing with Chancellor Bruning's problems considered it an unwarranted attack on the liberty of the Press. Worst of all. it brought a growling protest from Germany's Hero, old Paul von Hindenburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Letting Go | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...only of "The World's Turned Upside Down" but also of the whole episode of the Cornwallis surrender. They argued that such a scene, such a tune, might injure the patriotic sensibilities of friendly British visitors. Against any such elimination Congressman Bloom raised his voice in vehement protest. He wanted history, including "The World's Turned Upside Down," repeated as it occurred 150 years ago. The following long-range colloquy took place between him and Virginia's Congressman Schuyler Otis Bland, secretary of the Yorktown celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Words & Music | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...While these operators were conferring two truck loads of shabby National Miners' Union (Communist) strikers, their gaunt wives and skinny-children, arrived in Washington to protest. They parked behind the White House. Police were ready for them, confiscated tin cans for collecting money, banners emblazoned "Down With Hoover's Strike-Breaking Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Below Animal Standards | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...would make no comment. Was he a liberal? A reply came from Rev. Bernard J. Dolan, chancellor of the diocese of Los Angeles and San Diego: "If he were a liberal he would not have been consecrated Bishop! We hear voices raised all over the land in protest and horror of the licence that prevails in that State. . . . We cannot condone laxity of morals whether in the individual or the State. Laws that facilitate the evasion of one's sacred duty to God and home should find no place in civilized society. We must not, however, be unmindful that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reno's Bishop | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...inquisitive U. S. surgeon can do when he wants to try out some idea on animals is to get a few small beasts from his hospital or school zoo. Supplies are never large. Even then, the experimenter must be furtive. Anti-vivisectionists may hear of his work and protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wholesale Vivisection | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

First | Previous | 4114 | 4115 | 4116 | 4117 | 4118 | 4119 | 4120 | 4121 | 4122 | 4123 | 4124 | 4125 | 4126 | 4127 | 4128 | 4129 | 4130 | 4131 | 4132 | 4133 | 4134 | Next | Last