Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...This is a sore spot that had better be left untouched," snarled vitriolic Editor Virginio Gayda last week in Rome's semiofficial Giornale d'ltalia. The sore spot was on the Italian economic body, but ignoring Italian wincings, Great Britain proceeded to prod it. Despite an Italian protest "in firmest language," 13 Italian colliers bound for home with 100,000 tons of German coal had been stopped, after due warning that the shipments must cease, by British warships as they sailed from Rotterdam. They had been escorted through the Channel mine fields to The Downs, there to await...
...accusation, invited Mitch and the press to visit the St. Thomas centre and see for themselves. But Mitch weaseled, refused to visit the camp, complained, "You might go to a house the day after a murder was committed there and find no evidence of a disturbance at all." In protest against the Kingfish's undignified antics, this week his right-hand man and Provincial Secretary, Harry Nixon, resigned from the Ontario Cabinet...
...Ball, the son of a Confederate colonel, is a passionate believer in Southern womanhood and States' Rights. Once, in a letter to the Baltimore Sun, Editor Ball wrote: "The News & Courier would . . . protest against sending two young women to jail even though they made slighting remarks about the Confederate flag...
...Census takers will check up on 132,000,000 U. S. inhabitants, Columnist Mark Sullivan decided that the Government's curiosity about divorce, income, toilet facilities was an invasion of man's "responsibility to God alone." Mr. Sullivan was echoing the squeals of protest raised last week in a place with good acoustics: Congress...
...person of Grand Duke Vladimir, son of Grand Duke Cyril. The Whites boast a few great and a few notorious names-Sergei Koussevitzky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Sikorsky, Prince Matchabelli, Vadim Makaroff, the marrying Mdivanis. Mostly they have spent the last 22 years toasting the old days. Though White legitimists protest that they would support a Tsar only if he were called back by the people of Russia, and though the Soviet's muzhiks and rabotniks (peasants and workers) have so far given no hint that such an invitation might be forthcoming, Russia's war against Finland has given...