Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purist will protest the many loose ends. "Love in the Snow" is fraught with many incongruities in book, in setting, and in score. The play at times becomes a revue, with an irrelevant but pleasing dance sequence interlarded between several ballet numbers. But the customer who comes to be diverted will not object, for he will not have been disappointed...
...Angeles municipal judge he acted, off the bench, with unjudicial sprightliness, marched in parades to protest prohibition. Finally, fearing to become a "political eunuch," he resigned his $10,000-a-year seat on the bench, got elected to the State Senate...
...Stars and Stripes alumni recalled a year-old legend: General Lee, like the late General Patton, had tried and failed to get Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's Willie & Joe (who grew up in Stars and Stripes) suppressed-or shaved. One old grad, Colonel Egbert White, fired a hot protest to Chief of Staff Eisenhower, called Lee's order " a drastic departure from the policies you established and supported." (In Paris, an officer once ordered Stars and Stripes to do something for the boys: print as a slug line between every story "HAVE YOU KILLED YOUR GERMAN TODAY...
Since its founding in 1908, the Federal Council has achieved a remarkable degree of unity on social and world affairs among at least half of those U.S. Christians whose faith embodies the very name of protest. The Council preserves its unity, however, by avoiding theological discussion, knowing full well that any real effort toward doctrinal unity would drive its 25 groups back into their own shells for good...
Scent through the Mails. In Philadelphia, 60-year-old John Wagner was held for grand jury action despite his protest that livestock on his McClure, Pa. farm needed the garbage he had been mailing...