Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacked Jack Shafer, 44, a copyreader on the Times's Foreign Desk. The paper said that it lost confidence in Shafer after a subpoena from Senate investigators prompted him to admit party membership in 1940-41 and again in 1946-48, before he joined the Times. Quick to protest was the Newspaper Guild. Grounds for its protest : the dismissal was without "good and sufficient cause" and thus a violation of its contract with the Times...
Despite Macmillan's explanations, the Cabinet decision provoked a storm of protest in Parliament. Spearhead of the attack were Tory backbenchers, chief among them Toronto-born Sir Beverley Baxter, a onetime piano salesman who rose to the eminence of editor in chief...
...Couple had been the central attraction of a park show of modern statues. Discovering that it was gone, six Amsterdam sculptors, whose works were also included in the show, called a protest meeting. The meeting soon adjourned to the park itself, where the sculptors helped one another remove their own six works...
...weeks France's Communists have been under orders to agitate against the war in Algeria, demonstrating against troop-train departures, plastering up posters, organizing protest meetings-all with a fine disregard of the fact that only three months ago the party's Deputies voted solidly to give the government a free hand in Algeria. Now Premier Guy Mollet had confronted them-and all French parties-with a demand for a "package" vote of confidence on his whole policy, including both Algeria and his domestic program...
...have ignored APRA. But the mere announcement of elections a year ago stirred a couple of hopeful candidates to enter the race. At a boisterous rally for one of them in Arequipa in December, Odria's police panicked and fired rifles, wounding ten men. To stem the nationwide protest, Odria had to give amnesty to Apristas and change the election law to permit vote-counting in public at the polling places in the presence of opposition observers, instead of secretly, as in the past. A real election became a possibility; other candidates earnestly got into the fight. Odria...