Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOAN MCLAUGHLIN Mayfield Heights, Ohio Sir: As one member of the board of education here, I strongly protest that the reading study which has been going on in this community for the past three years was referred to as an example of action taken by parents and teachers who mistake "bad practice for bad theory." The Phonetic Keys to Reading, which is used here, could not be described as "a return to rigid phonics." The time expended by the teachers in an effort to find a method whereby more children may learn to read better, the results of which...
...Deliberate & Palpable." Last week the great phrase in the South was "the doctrine of interposition." The phrase has an illustrious ancestry. In 1798-99 the legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia passed three resolutions, written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, in protest to the Alien and Sedition Acts. "In the case of a deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of powers not granted [by the Constitution]," wrote Madison, "the states, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights...
...bell called France's new National Assembly to order one day last week. But as the 600 men who would govern France fumbled to assemble a government, the center of interest was a man with a monkey wrench who wasn't there-Pierre Poujade, with his roughhouse protest movement, his 52 newly-elected Deputies and his 2,400,000 ballot-box followers...
...spontaneous, secret, planned mass meeting of the newly-formed Harvard Poujadists will occur in Harvard Yard a few minutes after noon next Tuesday to protest the recently announced rise in College tuition, Charles Thomas '56, Poujadist spokesman, announced late last night...
...Eisenhower Dallas News thought that the President's failure to protest when his name was entered in the Illinois primary "indicates that [he] will consent to run if he gets the nod from his medical advisers ... It seems reasonable to interpret it as [his] hope...