Word: protestable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...usually in accordance with what TIME says concerning topics of general information but I certainly do protest when I encounter a magazine like TIME stating things which are misleading. I am referring to what you state concerning Paolino Uzcudun, the well-known pugilist. (This appeared in your number of July...
...Chinese regime at Nanking which dominates the chief part of China, Shanghai, suddenly increased all tariffs and port dues last week to an extent which local U. S. merchants and shippers declared would prove "ruinous." Members of the U. S. colony at Shanghai transmitted through the local consul a protest and appeal to President Coolidge. Observers thought that the Nanking War Lord, Chiang Kaishek, was suffering reverses in his campaign to take Peking (TIME, March 28, et seq.) and had adopted the desperate expedient of raising all port taxes to increase his failing revenue...
Standard Oil of New Jersey. President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard of N. J. was first to protest when Vacuum Oil's and Standard of N. Y.'s Russian coup became public knowledge three weeks ago. President Teagle has long been an intimate friend of Sir Henri Deterding. Their companies carefully forbear intruding into each other's markets. Said President Teagle: "The impression has been created, both in Europe and in this country, that the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, in the face of the present overproduction in the U. S., is buying Russian oil to displace products...
...there forcibly feeding them. It was recalled that in 1923 Mr. Sacco went on a hunger strike that lasted for more than a month, but gave up his starvation idea after having once been subjected to the forcible-feeding process (TIME, March 3, 1923). The hunger-strike is a protest against the secrecy of the investigations and began after a visit from Mrs. Sacco, whose account of her interview with Governor Fuller (TIME, July 25) apparently indicated that the Governor was not disposed to interfere with the due operation of Massachusetts...
...known as Volcano House) built on the side of the mountain. For some time, however, he has been away on a volcano-studying mission in Alaska. Natives maintain that Pele has grown fond of Dr. Jaggar and that the eruption is her protest against his absence. In support of this theory they say that when, in 1924. Dr Jaggar left Hawaii for a visit to New York, Kilauea promptly became rampant and that its last previous outbreak (1925) came while Dr. Jaggar was traveling in the Orient...