Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allied Control Council, Zhukov sat like a Buddha and let the political generals do the maneuvering. When an American parachute captain shot four Red army deserters who were holding up Germans in the U.S. sector, Zhukov wrote a stiff note of protest, explained afterwards: "I had to write that. That's just a formality. What I really want to know is, where do you get men like that captain?" At public dinners Vishinsky ordered Zhukov about, and Zhukov dutifully read speeches handed to him by Zampolit officers. He did not gag when Stalin took credit for the great victories...
...ended by winning a grudging admiration from most. "Our people are living in flea-ridden, bug-ridden, rat-ridden, lousy hellholes," she told them. "I will continue to agitate and kick up a row until we get rid of these evils." When the Tories walked out to protest one Labor bill, Bessie (in the words of one reporter) "rose from her seat and made a few steps forward, then a few steps backward. She then arched her body and minced across the floor of the House with one hand on her hip." "A sorry degradation of democracy," one newspaper called...
...legal minds to bear on constitutional problems." Of the five new judges appointed, one has campaigned for the Nationalists in Cape Province and the rest are undistinguished, except in their loyalty to the Strydom regime. In Johannesburg, the Society of Advocates (a bar association) raised its voice in protest: "It is dangerous and unpatriotic to imperil, for the sake of mere political advantage, the great esteem in which our highest court is held." Editorialized the Rand Daily Mail: "History may yet record Monday, April 25, 1955, as one of the most tragic days in the Union's affairs...
Other reporters-and their bosses-joined the protest against the brownout, centering their fire on the restrictions on news imposed by Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson under his new information policy (TIME, April 18). At the annual Manhattan meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association (see above) Richard W. Slocum, Association president and executive vice president of the Philadelphia Bulletin, called upon Wilson to change his ways. Said Slocum: "We shall hope that our well-intentioned Secretary of Defense will quickly see the error in his recent resort to censorship...
Defeated once in the lower courts, Cyrus Harvey, Jr. '47 and Bryant Halliday '49, managers of Brattle Films Inc., will continue to protest the constitutionality of the Public Safety Commissioner's banning powers. Massachusetts law permits the Commissioner to refuse Sunday licenses to films "inconsistent with the Sabbath's due observance...