Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackass Age. Cotton Ed was a conscientious objector to the 20th Century. He walked out of the 1936 Democratic Convention in high dudgeon because a Negro preacher read a prayer. He was a drag-end isolationist. He was a believer in poll taxes; he was never heard to protest a Southern lynching; and he stood prepared to filibuster to the end against an anti-lynching bill. He decorated his speeches by "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away, or if there were no spittoons, he would spit on the Senate carpet...
...extreme nationalist organizations seized the golden opportunity to stage street demonstrations against what they termed Yankee bullying. Pro-Nazi newspapers, El Federal, Cabildo, La Fronda screamed the same note. Foreign Minister Orlando Peluffo, in the first speech he had made in his three months in office, nicely balanced a protest of good-neighborly intentions with a proud declaration of independence. Many an Argentine who had looked on the military regime with a fishy eye was now moved to support it as defender of his country's sovereignty...
Progress. In St. Louis, Chester Lake, former Rural Electrification official who has been fasting since June 28 in protest against the "political domination" of the area, revealed that his self-denial had cured him of snoring...
With the excitement and confusion of registration over, new-comers have had a chance to demonstrate their prowess on Soldiers Field, and a few have drawn attention to themselves by virtue of their records. Two of these who have written all over them, but who protest strongly to the label, are javelin-throwing Dave Murray of V-12 and Eliot and Freshman slugger Walt Lowell House...
Your omission of the last sentence seriously impairs the sense of what I said. I realize, of course, that my writing a protest to you is like a flea barking at an elephant...