Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until recently Berlin's offer to put German labor at France's disposal, for the purpose of rebuilding the devastated province, and to deduct the cost from the Reparations bill has been refused by France. The French Government had feared that her labor unions would indignantly protest against the acceptance of any such prepositions. Her plan was for Germany to work at home and sell the product of her labor at a profit, a part of which would go to France as indemnity. With this money, French laborers were to be paid for rebuilding the wasted provinces. This...
...House of Commons was the life and soul of the conservative element in the Coalition. His withdrawal from what the Premier calls the "fighting line" follows on a series of disquieting portents. First there was the dramatic decision of Lord Robert Cecil to join the Opposition in protest against the government's policies. Then came the resignation of General Crozier in Ireland, and finally Lloyd George's own secretary withdrew his services. These events, together with the recent anti-Coalition results in some of the elections, have naturally left the Coalition government materially weakened...
...with the same feeling which caused Cicero to proclaim "O! tempora, O! mores!", that I would like to make a protest against the board of editors of the CRIMSON including a student with the profound ignorance of the writer of yesterday's editorial on "British...
...Glee Club, and this in spite of the rather long program so characteristic of its concerts. It is difficult to determine whether this can be classed as a fault or not; it is perhaps more a tribute to the organization's performance that the audience does not protest at the lengthy presentation. Certainly the concert did not reflect the least abatement in the ambitious aims of the Glee Club and proved that the association is as versatile and accomplished as unanimous opinion maintains...
Last year the people of Massachusetts found the state act very satisfactory. The great mass of the population concentrated in the cities appreciated the value of the extra hour of daylight after business hours. The farmers, particularly those dealing in milk, were the only ones to protest, in spite of the fact that the confusion due to the difference between railroad time and daylight time was born almost entirely by the city-dwellers...