Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Pledged equal treatment and recognition to all Christian denominations, after a White House visit by Lutheran, Baptist, Seventh-Day Adventist leaders, who came to protest his appointment of a representative to the Papal State (TIME, Jan. 1). To these Mr. Roosevelt outlined, in deepest secrecy, his tentative program for peace proposals. Later, it was learned, the appointment to Rome of Myron C. Taylor may fall through. The President wants to take advantage of the Vatican's unsurpassed diplomatic coverage through world-wide listening posts; the Vatican is not so keen...
Instead of taking it on the chin for four years without protest, a student committee last spring dashed out its own conception of what a college education should stand for. Its report is now being considered by the Faculty and may possibly lead to a criticism and re-evaluation of Harvard's curriculum...
What then of the Spee's commander? Was he a coward? El Dia said his Government forced him to protest that Spee was only unfit for sea, not unfit for battle. But sharp tongues in Buenos Aires flung painful taunts at wiry little Captain Hans Langsdorff, 45, after he came ashore so jauntily with his men, to be lionized by the city's German colony...