Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alaska's Governor Ernest H. Gruening started the tempest. Choking with indignation, he had appeared before the Committee to protest against a bill to authorize mail censorship between the U.S. and territories. For a year, he sputtered, censors' had been prying into mail to Alaska. Private letters were passed around for the censors' amusement. Personal items were scissored, put on mimeographed sheets, circulated to British and U.S. officials...
...good an American as the next guy. But . . ." This painful introduction prefaces The Malarkey views on meat rationing ("Not me! Not so a lot of profiteering meat packers can make themselves some more millions"), travel restrictions ("I'm goin' to travel to Atlantic City in protest"), gas rationing ("If I don't get the gas, somebody else will"), and other subjects from scrap metal to war bonds...
Although the unions in Donnelley have never demanded a showdown election in the shop they nevertheless brought pressure to bear on the smaller print shops to walk out as a form of protest. Typical result: Although Chicago print shops had been doing work on direct contract with Montgomery Ward for years, they could not continue this work because part of the work involved was done by Donnelley. Another: Although two union shops in the East do all but the front cover engravings of an international air express edition of TIME, the Philadelphia shop would not perform its part...
...years of age and 10,000 subscribers is not a record in magazine publishing. But those two facts last week spelled out the relatively permanent arrival of another journal of opinion. In the corridor of intellectualistic protest where the New Republic and the Nation have long stalked, Common Sense now also strolls...
...Spindrift was Mussolini's claim that "there has never been any act of sabotage or protest against the war." He conveniently forgot his purge of 160,000 faltering Fascist Party members and the close watch the Gestapo and the Ovra are keeping on suspected revolutionaries and possible Darlanites. He made no mention of reports that near Foggia 40,000 peasants had joined with local militia in a spontaneous uprising which was put down after four days by troops from Rome; or that at Genoa on Oct. 23 air-raid wardens staged an anti-war demonstration...