Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal grand juries seldom indict for lynching anywhere, but a jury made legal race history last week in Jackson, Miss. by doing just that: indicting Deputy Sheriff Luther Holder of Jones County-as well as four leaders of a lynch mob-because he did not protest or protect the jail or cell of one Howard Wash and so failed to keep alive his prisoner...
...British Raj, fully aware of the great power of a fast-to-the-death in influencing Hindu public opinion,* suppressed the story but the Congress underground spread bulletins of his condition and his messages. In protest against the continuing press ban, more than 100 Indian newspapers refused to print any news at all (TIME, Jan. 18). As agitation reached a climax the Raj compromised; and the Professor's friends persuaded him to accept. At stake was a moral issue, typical of the root evils in the tragic Indian political situation...
...striking example of the nationwide protest against this apparently innocent viewpoint comes from the pen of Eugene Lyons, author of "The Red Decade," who, in an open letter in the January issue of the American Mercury, maintains that "American boys are not fighting on scattered fronts...for any practical balance between our democracy and dictatorship of any brand." Lyons and other critics charge that Wallace is more sympathetic to the Russian cause than our own, that in his unbridled enthusiasm for the Kremlin he is forgetting what his "common man" is fighting...
...Your protest against the behind-door procedure of the nominating committee is just and commendable. You have served our class and the entire student body by drawing attention to the coming elections and stimulating interest in careful citizenship...
Harvard's undefeated Junior Varsity hockey team will face Andover Academy this afternoon at the Boston Skating Club. Play will begin at 2:30 o'clock, when the Jayvees seek to protest their winning streak...