Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilians could only speculate on the rest: was Koga killed in the U.S. air and naval raids on Truk and Palau on March 29? Was he intercepted by U.S. fighters en route to some Pacific base? Or did he, as Chungking suggested, honorably disembowel himself presumably in protest against the last naval reshuffle (TIME...
Last week the Dominican Republic's Ambassador to Brazil stalked into the Foreign Ministry at Rio de Janeiro, delivered a formal protest. Subject: ribald Brazilian gibes (specifically, a ribbing story in O Globo) at an international marriage. The bride: nubile Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold) Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican Republic's Dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The groom: plump, baldish Brazilian Industrialist Antenor Mayrink Veiga...
...cried the Bolivians. But the State Department persisted in nonrecognition, so far has kept all Latin nations except Argentina from accepting the Villarroel Government. Enraged by this pressure, Brazil and Uruguay have urged the State Department to give way, accept Villarroel & Co. as worthy Good Neighbors. The Bolivians protest that they have been condemned without hearing, that the U.S. has ignored their many attempts to prove their good will. Say they, quoting the Gospel of St. John: "If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou...
...howl of protest was set off by an odd piece of news last week: the Army Air Forces had been surreptitiously giving officer training to women civilians...
...protest against schedules requiring alternate twelve-and four-hour days caused the strike. But the peremptory strike and the Government's peremptory action was a gaudy symptom of a serious condition. Labor unrest was growing in Britain, workers in many regions and industries were in revolt against their own leaders. And the Government was getting tough. Last week it put into effect a regulation providing imprisonment up to five years, fines of $2,000 for persons convicted of fomenting strikes...