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...irregular intervals since the war, and which reached its highest point in 1928 at the famous Schubert Sanger Fest in Vienna provided an excellent example of what this sort of thing may lead to. At that time the French government became more than a little excited and by protest and noise prevented the movement from getting very far. Even had the project borne fruit, it would have meant only the addition to Germany, a nation of some sixty millions, of around five million inhabitants. Relative to the strength of the other European powers the difference between sixty and sixty-five...
...Gold Star Mother who happens to be colored I wish to protest against the gratuitous insult in the attitude of the War Department in segregating colored Gold Star Mothers. . . . Twelve years after the Armistice the high principles of 1918 seem to have been forgotten. . . . We who gave and are colored are insulted by the implication that we are not fit persons to travel with other bereaved ones. . . . We are set aside, Jim Crowed, separated and insulted...
...just taken title to 13,000 acres of timberland owned by Sugar Pine Lumber Co. in the heart of Yosemite National Park. The U. S. paid $3,300,000 for the tract, half the purchase price being donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.* Last year, over the vigorous protest of Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana who owns a summer home in Glacier National Park, Congress ordered the Interior Department to buy up all private land within national parks to save them from mutilation (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929). Under the law the U. S. pays one-half of such cost...
...disarmament in arms? By dealing among equals! America and ourselves can go into a conference and settle something, but, supposing Switzerland made proposals to America to reduce her navy, do you think she would do it? People can speak the same language when on tariff equality. We can only protest...
...have never advocated the elevation of any President, except Woodrow Wilson, but I have protested and still protest and will protest . . . against the tyranny of an inquisitional church in American politics...