Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force, the wheels of justice had squeaked and groaned, but had not turned an inch. As a prelude to the trial, the five defense attorneys had challenged the federal jury system in New York. Then they had used up week after tedious week in shouted argument, breast-beating protest, endless examination of witnesses and a concerted caterwauling at the bench...
There were none of the boisterous des-camisado parades and mass meetings which have usually marked the great day. Instead, hardly a newspaper appeared throughout all Argentina to remind the workers what day it was. To protest the government's failure to settle the three-week-old strike of Buenos Aires' newspaper typographers (TIME, Feb. 21), printers had chosen that day to call a nationwide stoppage...
With prospects of a settlement dimmer than ever, other big unions talked of joining the printers' protest. Their common complaint: Peronista union bosses refused to negotiate for the raises which rank & filers thought they needed to meet the rising cost of living...
...Monday night, there was also a demonstration--a quiet and amiable demonstration of willingness to hear Marxist theories from a German Communist. There could be little doubt that the vast majority of Eisler's listeners disagreed emphatically with practically everything he said. Yet there were no outbursts of protest, no low-level practical jokes, no heckling...
...started the shakeup. The way it was done left the Zeitung staff dizzy. First Textor fired Foreign Editor Hans Lehmann for pro-Nazi leanings, though Textor had refused to approve Lehmann's dismissal for the same reason only three months ago. When twelve other German staffers resigned in protest, Textor named Bruce Buttles, an ex-Christian Science Monitor reporter and a civilian employee of the Army, as Zeitung publisher...