Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recommended to Smith by a Chinese physicist, Miss Chien Shiung Wu. In perfect English, Kusaka declared his opposition to the Emperor of Japan but, as shy as he was able, preferred not to enter the controversy. The staid Springfield Republican, said: "Come, let us be reasonable. The protest was . . . injudicious. . . .Tolerance . . . will do no harm...
...Johnston's bold talk in Britain (TIME, Aug. 30) drew British fire even before he got home. Early last week the London press broke out in a rash of protest. Snapped the irascible Mirror: "Will Mr. Johnston please note that no government ... in this country is going to allow anyone to come along and buy up Great Britain at the back door." Said a letter to the Times: "What progress can be expected if the United States pursues a high tariff policy . . . and sets out to use her huge production power to export without taking payment in goods...
...application, the Bar Association found itself under indictment by an angry grand jury of its own members. Led by the libertarian Arthur Garfield Hays, the indicters denounced the tabling of the application as "indistinguishable from the racial doctrines of Hitlerism." Several of the members, including Hays, resigned in protest...
Behind him, on dry land, Seamari Joe's aggressive, left-wing union made more history. It threw the longest picket line of World War II (1,500 men) around the boxlike World-Telegram building in lower Manhattan to protest the labor-baiting writings of Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler...
Anxious whites were relieved to learn that the ruckus was no native uprising but a peaceful "march-to-work" protest against a one-penny (2?) hike in bus fares. Owners of the private bus fleet from Alexandria, ten miles north of Johannesburg and home of many of the city's Negro day laborers, pleaded greater costs, upped the one-way fare from four-to fivepence; a total of twopence a day. Negroes, earning from $12 to $20 monthly, had boycotted the busses...