Word: protestantness
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...brand Mr. Snowden's repeal of those duties (TIME, May 12, 1924) as a purely partisan action. Mr. Snowden retorted: "I can well understand that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is incapable of understanding that any person can be moved by honest political convictions." (Torrents of protest from the Government side of the House, loud cries of "withdraw.") Mr. Snowden retorted: "I will follow Mr. Churchill's example and withdraw nothing." Some time before his tiff with Mr. Snowden, Mr. Churchill's attention was brought to the fact that foreign nations were "dumping" duty-free articles...
Whitney. The law lords of the House of Lords, sitting on the supreme appellate court of the realm, gave a hearing to a protest lodged by Harry Payne Whitney, U. S. financier and race horse owner, nonresident, non-British tax payer, against a £360,000 (about $1,746,000) levy on his income...
...flag was pulled down by workmen when they reported early yesterday morning, but not before the bunting had been observed by a considerable number of students on the way to early classes. No trace of the way to early classes. The perpetrator of this latest protest is unknown...
After concluding a large number of treaties with foreign powers providing for investigation and arbitration of disputes he saw his work destroyed by the World War. When the "Lusitania" sank Mr. Bryan, who is a pronounced pacifist, resigned because the President's protest to Germany was too warlike. Since then his political activities have not been so extensive though his brother Charles W. Bryan was nominated for the Vice Presidency last year largely through his efforts...
...almost impossible to herald the coming importance of one of Harvard's weakest minor sports without arousing, a great deal of skeptical protest. It is perhaps equally difficult to give lacrosse the serious consideration that it merits at present. But the game of lacrosse is rapidly ceasing to be such a colossal joke as many have thought it in the past. It commands the sympathy of a long suffering under...