Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olympics when he permitted the use of Soldiers Field for the tryouts of colored track stars and thereby gave them a chance to enter the Berlin games. Then when race prejudice showed up at the Games themselves, he was the sole member of the governing board to resign in protest...
Reactions to the revelation that the University had forbidden a Negro athlete to participate in a contest with a team from the Naval Academy came from three sources yesterday as undergraduates formed to protest, the H. A. A. explained its action, and the Navy officials denied responsibility for the whole matter...
Just before he went on vacation last week, President Roosevelt gingerly stuck a cork in his most explosive problem. The problem : the rising number of labor disputes and stoppages in defense work-and the rising protest over them...
...Macedonian revolutionary songs. At Berane in Montenegro they sang battle songs from the days of the Turkish-Montenegrin wars. At Banja Luka in Bosnia they sang Be Ready, Komitadjis -and 30,000 of them waited at the railroad station for Branko Chubrilovitch, who resigned as Minister of Agriculture in protest against capitulation to Germany, and carried him through the streets on their shoulders. Everywhere they sang the new song...
...intimidate every member of the teachers' unions, every teacher, every trade unionist. . . ." The American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom invoked the Constitution, declared that teachers, as citizens, had a legal right to be members of the Communist Party. But there were other liberals who refrained from protest, reflecting that Lincoln's dilemma was more real today than ever. They found it hard to defend a persecuted minority whose offense was not mere unpopularity, but enmity to the State...