Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms of the deal, Southerners would be allowed to protest at length and get themselves on record as favoring the poll tax and "white supremacy." Republicans and Northern Democrats, prodded by church, liberal, labor and Negro organizations, would pass around a petition to impose cloture and force a vote. When cloture failed-as it did this week by a vote of 4440-36-the bill would be quietly shelved, at least until after...
...believe that the problem of controlling venereal diseases is not only a moral problem, but also a very serious public health problem. As a citizen, concerned with public welfare, I take issue with the Legion's contention that un chastity is a greater scourge than venereal disease. . . . The protest [that the film violates the Production Code] is not valid. The Code does not and was never intended to apply to educational government films. . . . The film has not been withdrawn . . . a method ... to show it will be worked...
...London he sent a strong protest- by week's end there was no reply...
Forbidden Land. Cagily, Kent Cooper sent A.P.'s story on the protest to U.S. editors on a hold-for-release basis, io that they would know the censorship score in case the War Department blocked his kick (which it did not). The A.P.'s story was the heaviest indictment yet of non-security censoring. Many papers gave it column-long play. Among the Cooper counts...
...General Wilson had ignored A.P.'s protest for eight days (and at week's end he had not even acknowledged its receipt...