Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their Master's Voice . . . the candidate for re-election ruled that his own speech was not political." Republicans grabbed up their own adjectives and leaped in. They demanded that the networks give Tom Dewey equal time; they were refused. The Army's about-face even prompted a protest from Franklin Roosevelt's staunch backer, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper. "Let all the candidates be heard by the troops," said-he. "The President will be able to hold...
Strikers set up headquarters in the city's largest carbarn (without audible protest from the company). Up on a toolbox jumped burly, bull-voiced James Henry McMenamin, 43, to take command. He shouted: "It's white against black!" He well knew that the company's 600 Negro employes had hitherto worked peacefully (in menial jobs) beside other workers. But now, he pointed out, as motormen, they could sit on the same benches as whites. Cried McMenamin: "The colored people have bedbugs...
...fast, even has his valet push his wheel chair rapidly. He is disconcerting, quick, and a mild tyrant in social affairs; he invents complicated variations of poker, which he almost invariably wins and which in consequence he is the only one who enjoys playing. But if the other players protest he good-naturedly returns to the rules. He goes to the movies at the White House about every fortnight, sits in the front row, and comments aloud about the picture. If he did the same thing in a public theater, it "would cause people in the nearby seats to shush...
Mohandas Gandhi, recuperating near Bombay from the effects of his latest protest fast against imprisonment, was rudely referred to in the House of Lords by rugged Scottish Viscount Elibank, who called him "the greatest bamboozler of the century...
...hung-from the posterish Harlequin to the Seated Woman (see cut), an example of Picasso's attempt to capture a figure from several angles simultaneously. Dropped at the last minute was a plan to show a large reproduction of Picasso's famed Guernica mural, a graphically violent protest against Franco's atrocities during the Spanish Civil...