Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ears of the American Labor Party: "To suggest that my support of you is formal and lukewarm is an untruth. . . . You are without any question the best qualified of all the candidates for the governorship. . . . There are no strings to this endorsement ... I do not believe in protest voting...
...Newark, Samuel Freedman was out raged: "The South is still fighting the Civil War." He called WPB, which sent a man to protest. Snapped Judge Gower: "WPB isn't running this court." Harold Weston thought it best to pay the fine and hurry home. The Negroes were released...
...vote showed a surprising docility among Labor M.P.s, some of whom were rumored earlier to be urging Sir Stafford Cripps to resign his War Cabinet post in protest against Tory policies. It came a few days after 56 prominent Britons had signed a 400-word appeal to liberal, able Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar ("C. R.") urging him to form a national Government. C. R. flatly contradicted a recent Cripps statement that Gandhi had personally aborted an attempt at an Indian settlement last spring. Of the Secretary of State for India's speech, Rajagopalachariar said: "The drift is far too perilous...
...earned "the right to a happy future in Hitler's Europe." But the response was bad. Workers disappeared just before they were to entrain for Germany. A bomb destroyed the Lyon recruiting offices on the Boulevard Garibaldi. At least ten officials of the Vichy Labor Ministry resigned in protest and despair. Workers in the big Renault plant near Paris struck in protest against the forced recruiting. They were idle for three hours, until the Germans threatened to shoot 50 hostages in the factory courtyard. Then they went back to work making tanks for Hitler's armies in Russia...
...President's office. There was none of the usual banter: the newsmen, personally and professionally, resented the censorship-instituted by the President himself-that had barred them from one of the year's biggest news stories. Nearly twoscore of them had signed a letter of sharp protest...