Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Reginald Weir and Gerald Norman Jr. did not play in last week's national junior indoor tennis championship. Their applications were rejected without explanation by U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. That made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People write a protest: "Unfair, unsportsmanlike . . .calculated to degrade the sport . . . spirit of caste and class snobbery. ..." Meanwhile, in a Manhattan armory the best white tennis players between 16 and 18 played for the championship, hitting the ball so that the shots boomed like explosions. Boys under 16 played for the boy's title, tapping their shots back...
Merchants Protest...
Inflamed by Harper's tales of Fascist propaganda and intimidation in the U.S., Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, apostle of 150% Americanism, bellowed in protest, demanded an official Senate investigation. The U. S. State Department made quiet inquiry, dropped official diplomatic hints at Rome. Last week, wilting as Fascism so often does before genuine opposition, 93 chapters of the Fascist League of America disbanded. In New York reporters assembled at the league's headquarters to see the Fascist League's emblems and insignia shipped back to Rome...