Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Rainwater dripped steadily through the pane containing the State Seal of Oklahoma. Towels were placed to catch the drip. But the Roosevelt luck held: just as the President's car reached the Capitol, the rain stopped. - Joined the U. S. with the 20 other American republics in a protest against the German invasions as "unjustifiable and cruel...
...German Army has just assaulted Belgium. This is the second time. . . . This time the crime is even more odious since no ultimatum, no protest was presented to the Belgian Government, which learned only by the assault itself that pacts between Germany and Belgium had been broken...
...police official decided to intervene and the belligerents brushed themselves off. But as ruffled Sir Noel started to get back into his automobile he saw one of the posters on the side of the car. He ordered it removed and it was. Next day he turned in an energetic protest to the Foreign Office. Its reply was to suggest that British consuls tell their nationals to go home. It was getting too hard to protect them...
...Protest came chiefly from Massachusetts Investors Trust, holder of 21,700 shares of the Class A stock which, under the Odium plan, would have been exchanged for common and new preferred. Giving nine reasons against the plan, M. I. T. persuaded the management that the stipulated two-thirds of the stockholders would never approve it. Last week, with still other stockholders joining the uproar, Floyd Odium issued a long announcement, Guy Vaughan a short one. Kernel of both: the deal...
Anthony Eden's stanch friend Alfred Duff Cooper, M. P., who resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty in protest against appeasing Adolf Hitler at Munich, last week roused London with speeches and press interviews on a keynote long soft-pedaled by the Government. "It would be a good thing," said he, "to break Germany up into small States...