Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Those who cheered regard Sir Oswald as a sincere, hardworking convert to Socialism. He was assigned last year to help Jim Thomas fight unemployment. He resigned in protest at the latter's happy-go-lucky methods, drafted a plan of his own, the secret Mosley Memorandum (TIME, June 2) which was submitted to Scot MacDonald but never published...
Irving T. Bush, president of Bush Terminal Co., back in the U. S. from honeymooning in Europe with his third wife (former Marian Spore, Michigan heiress, Manhattan mystic and social worker) paid without protest $83,000 in duties and fines for undeclared jewelry worth $40,000. Officials stated there was no attempt at smuggling, simply a dispute over duties on jewelry purchased in the U. S., reset in Europe, brought back. Their fines paid, the Bushes sailed once more for Europe...
...former editor of the CRIMSON, I beg to protest against your recent editorial against the Legion Convention...
Without having read the full content of the editorial I wish to commend the initiative and courage that it took to write such an editorial knowing full well that a storm of protest was sure to follow in its wake. If the people feel that a paper sponsored by Harvard University hasn't the right to handle subject matter pertaining to the American Legion they should familiarize themselves with the list of all America's glorious war dead...
...attitude of the CRIMSON is a sincere protest against both the rottenness of the convention and the cowardly hypocrisy with which it was countenanced, and has been since reported to an essentially moral public. Certainly there is no political or financial gain for the CRIMSON in such a stand, except the added respect of the small minority who know and are ashamed at the truth, both among the citizens of Boston and among the Legionnaires...