Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Silver. At the chairman's request and over the protest of Southwestern members the House voted to drop a 30? per oz. duty on this metal, restore it to the free list...
Gagged by Britain, enjoined by St. Gandhi to nonviolence, Indians faced appeals by his followers to join in a "Day of Mourning," march in protest parades, participate in hartals (do-nothing strikes). Shops were shuttered and barred in Bombay, Ahmadabad, Jalalpur as great numbers of workers struck in these cities. Guarded by armored cars, some factories at Bombay kept going, their workers harried by swarms of pickets. Censorship made certain that any bad news would be at least delayed. Said Mrs. Gandhi mildly when told of her husband's incarceration: "I hope India will show her mettle and make...
...CRIMSON's "swing to the right," first at the appearance of the protest signed by 51 alumni, and now, with the formulation of the "Harvard Square Deal Association," has quite possibly been misinterpreted. Obviously, to accept the University's miserliness and technical evasions would be an abrupt about-face from its previous attitude. Editorially, the CRIMSON has declared itself out of sympathy with the attempt, first of the Alumni and, secondly, of the student group, mainly because of the attendant publicity and a resultant inquisitiveness of the world into a private matter which should be solved primarily by Harvard...
...protest against British firing on a mob at Peshawar, a funeral procession of 60 coffins was staged last week, but when British police poked the corpses about half of them leaped from their coffins, ran. Magnificent was the restraint of police at Bombay, where thousands of St. Gandhi's sympathizers were allowed to parade past the great stone arch called "The Gateway of India," past the Royal Yacht Club, past the Taj Mahal Hotel...
...British goods reached such proportions that the Japanese Government railways cut freight and railway rates to speed goods from Japanese factories to boats destined for India, so that Japan may get all possible business while the getting is good; 2) His Majesty's Viceroy, Baron Irwin, accepted the "protest resignation" of the Speaker of the Indian assembly; 3) the Bombay stock exchange and other business houses closed for a day "in protest" when St. Gandhi's secretary was arrested; 4) Baron Irwin proclaimed that "civil disobedience . . . is rapidly developing . . . into violent resistance to the constituted authority...