Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well Regimented. Last month the "smug, righteous" day people, as Shepherd calls them, closed ranks: WOR declared Shepherd "noncommercial" and sacked him, thus setting off a clangor of protest heard halfway across the land. Next day the chain gave him a week's reprieve. Then Shepherd tried a hard-sell on the first commercial product that popped into mind, Sweetheart Soap (which had never been a WOR sponsor). He was abruptly cut off the air and fired again. Announced WOR: "We cannot permit such poor judgment to continue uncontrolled." Just as abruptly, WOR ate its words. Sweetheart Soap rewarded...
...Dissent. In Westport, Conn., 62 junior members of the Westport Woman's Club resigned in protest after a regulation was passed barring junior membership to anyone over...
Within minutes after he got the news. Ambassador Dubois was on the phone to Moroccan Premier Si Bekkai, delivering an angry protest. Dubois was not overly disturbed by the decision to deport the troublemaking colons. (One of the deportees, a former Présence Française president named Georges Causse, had been expelled from Morocco once before, by the French themselves, allowed to return by clemency of the Sultan.) The ambassador was, however, incensed at Si Bekkai's failure to live up to an agreement that the French embassy would be consulted on all matters involving French citizens...
While unmarked police cars stood inconspicuously by, more than 2,000 Negro students filed into 54 previously segregated elementary and secondary schools in Louisville, Ky. last week. They were received without protest or excitement. ''The Negro and white youngsters sat down together and started studying together, and that was that,'' said one school official...
...proposition that in a stretch drive anything goes. In the first inning of the second game, Chicago's Don Hoak broke up a double play with a spikes-first slide at Junior Gilliam, standing a "safe" two yards off the bag. Manager Alston was too preoccupied to protest...