Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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CAIRO, Egypt--Agitation for an Egyptian declaration of war against Italy, crystallized by Greece's military successes, increased-tonight after announcement that Egypt has delivered a protest to Italy against Fascist bombings of non-military objectives
...could work with in C. I. O., a man opposed to Communist union control, who would not let bitterness alone prevent healing the breach between C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. This was considerable, despite Murray's first words as president ("I protest the use of Government pressure to force a shotgun agreement between the C. I. 0. and the A. F. of L."), despite his announcing that his first job was an immediate organizing drive in "Little Steel" and Ford. The show over, John L. Lewis clapped on his grey sombrero, lit one of his endless...
...protest was given to A. Calvert Smth '14, Secretary to the President, since President Conant himself was absent in Washington. It read...
...flying defenders there preoccupied. Meantime wave after wave of heavy-laden bombers passed around and northwest to Coventry. All night they kept at it until they had dropped over 500 tons of high explosive, 30 tons of incendiaries on the old city where Lady Godiva once rode naked to protest against high taxes. Coventry, "Britain's Detroit"-a city of 200,000 on the southern edge of the Midlands-became one solid, seething mass of fire. Not just the motor and airplane factories on the outskirts, but the entire heart of the city, square miles of workmen...
...Sharpened Fears. Next day Pierce Laval went back to Paris to implement this protest, to bargain for the Lorrainers and on other matters. He might not get his way on everything, but there were two German fears which might win him some concessions. They were: 1) French colonies in Africa might somehow fall into British hands; 2) French territories in the Western Hemisphere might be"taken"by the U. S. Both fears were sharpened a little last week...