Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Rumania's Minister to Jugoslavia made fervent protest in Belgrade last week against a Jugo-Slav operetta, His Majesty in a Bathing Suit, which, said he, was an obvious caricature of the love affairs of King Carol II. King Carol's spectacled brother-in-law. Dictator-King Alexander, ordered the offending scenes censored...
...Yost's appointment caused menacing rumblings from the Wet wing of the G. O. P. First to protest was Republican Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia of New York: "Chairman Fess can't dry up the Republican party. . . . Mrs. Yost will be only a temporary director of women's activities because we won't stand for it. . . . There'll be a Wet explosion at the next national convention." Major Henry Hastings Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, loudly mocked Chairman Fess's attempts to eliminate Prohibition as an issue...
Poland, jealous of every move against her dearly guarded corridor to the sea, was just as vociferous. Foreign Minister August Zaleski made formal protest to Berlin...
...Somebody has got to make a protest," he cried, and several Laborite back benches cheered. "After all we are a Pacifist party!" Passionately objecting to Britain's £51,739,000 ($251,457,540) appropriation for new naval construction this year, Commander Kenworthy asked the Government to call another naval conference at once and suspend all building ad interim. "Otherwise we might as well say goodbye to the whole movement for Peace and Disarmament...
...When I got to the Speaker's table I was boiling with indignation," said he last week to reporters, "I stood by my friend Mr. Brockway to protest against our effete Parliamentary system. The Labor Government will be faced with many more such protests while it continues to ape its so-called betters. Lord Tom Noddy may cut a gracious figure in silk breeches, but the same cannot be said of Jimmy Thomas [the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas, M. P., P. C., onetime engine greaser, today Secretary of State for the Dominions...