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...Protests against the readmission of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, self-styled Ambassador of Soviet Russia, who was deported in 1921, and his associate, Gregory Weinstein, reached the State Department. Copies of the protest, which emanated from women's patriotic societies, were sent to Senator Borah of Idaho, who favors political and diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia...
...sudden rise in the price of sugar from 7 to 10 cents a pound has created a great movement of protest throughout the country. Four Federal agencies and one non-partisan political organization have already begun inquiries into the alleged sugar corner, and all expect to find evidence of manipulation through monopoly which will be brought before a Grand Jury. The five agencies investigating the so-called " sugar steal...
Following the Commissioner's message, two protests were immediately made. The American Indian Defense Society in Manhattan asserted that if the program is carried out, the Indians will be compelled to abandon traditions as old as their race, and will be denied freedom in worshiping the gods of their ancestors. The other protest came from the Yakimo tribe in the State of Washington. Its chief in announcing the usual spring dances declared: " You say, ' Farm as the white man does' and ' Save your money as the white man does.' . . . When you stop the white...
...question which Secretary Hughes is said to be discussing with the British Foreign Office. Although American Naval officers declare that we are fully within our rights under the Treaty in increasing the range of our guns, Representative Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that he would protest the right of the Navy Department to make the change. Secretary Hughes and President Harding will be consulted before action is taken...
...Otto H. Kahn refused to attend a private reading last Sunday of Eeigen, Schnitzler's outspoken drama, which the New York Green Room Club was to give in his honor. His refusal followed a letter of protest from Charles S. Sumner, President of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. According to Mr. Sumner, the play's performance in Berlin last year was the cause of rioting. It is answered that the rioting was not that of protesting virtue, but of eager spectators trying...