Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showdown had come between the Communist-cored EAM and its fighting wing ELAS on the one side, and the coalition Government of Socialist Premier George Papandreou with the backing of the British occupation forces, on the other. Ever since the police fired on a forbidden EAM demonstration, called to protest the surrender of its arms (TIME, Dec. 11), open warfare had raged in the ancient capital...
...insincere Blot was a taunting the Jester, a new Jester without the tradition worship of the old masters. Light dawned in Ibis intellect: unwitting Lampy had bestowed the Eli sky-blue tint to creaking portals that shrieked their protest in hues of yellow. The bird groaned and returned to frustrated vigil...
Thirteen months ago, a determined delegation of labor leaders marched into the White House. Chafing under the Little Steel formula, they came to protest a Bureau of Labor Statistics report which had found only a 23.4% rise in the cost of living (from January 1941 to October 1943). Franklin Roosevelt had seldom seen labor so angry with him. He set up a committee, headed by WLBoss William H. Davis, "to look into the question." The committee included two labor mem bers, the C.I.O.'s R. J. Thomas, the A.F. of L.'s George Meany...
...courageous but unpopular deflation program (TIME, Nov. 6), its slowness in purging collaborators, its handling of food rationing and crippled communications. When Premier Pierlot last week ordered Belgian Resistance groups (40,000 strong) to disarm and disband, his three leftist ministers (two Communists and one Resistance) resigned in noisy protest...
Negroes in Oberlin, Ohio have always had to go out of town for their professional haircuts because local barbershops barred them. Last week Oberlin College students and faculty, some of whom had let their hair grow in protest against this discrimination, were getting haircuts beside Negroes in their own cooperative shop. The barber: Jerry Mizuiri, a Nisei...