Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York and his wife -both in solemn mood-boarded the train for Manhattan to vote, and then to wait a nation's decision. In Manhattan, 78 people were in line ahead of the Deweys in the Park Avenue precinct. The others stood aside, despite Dewey's protest that "We haven't anything else to do today. We can wait...
...University Dr. T. S. Painter accepted "under protest" the proposition of acting president. On the campus the Lone Star flag hung at half-mast. Said Homer Price Rainey, "I have great faith in the future of the University of Texas. . . . I'm going to take a good rest and get in some fishing...
...Switzerland of famed, 72-year-old Paul Langevin, long the leader of Parisian physicists. His arrest in October 1940 while at his post in L'Ecole de Physique was the first break in the Nazi wooing of French scientists. He was imprisoned for two months, but released after protest riots in which several students were killed. The underground helped him to escape from house arrest at Troyes and cross the border. His son-in-law, Jacques Solomon, was among the organizers (all of whom were shot by the Nazis) of the clandestine scientific journal, L'Université Libre...
Resolved: That we are not opposed to allowing woman her rights, but do protest against her appearing in places where her presence is calculated to destroy our respect for the modesty and delicacy...
...Saturday in Gotham: Dropped over to Commodore Music Shop to protest the issuing of "Mop Mop" and picked up some new dises ... Best of these were "Clarinet Marmalade" with Bill Davison, Ed Hall, and Brunies; "Squeeze Me" by Yank Lawson, Miff Mole, and Cless; and the same tune recorded by Cliff Jackson, and Pee Wee ... For lovers of boogie there is a new "Streamlino Train" by Cripple Clarence Lofton on Session label ... Next to Condon's Town Hall broadcast featuring excellent Butterfield, Kaminsky, Mole, and Muggsy along with poor Krupa and indifferent Haggart ... Saw Haggart in the bar next door...