Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cried Neuberger: "The President of the U.S., according to news dispatches, is having the White House squirrels caught in box traps and carted many miles away from the White House because they have been scratching his putting green. I strenuously protest this undertaking. I urge the President of the U.S. to cease and desist before he does permanent and irreparable damage to an American tradition." Squirrel in Hand. Neuberger was briefly interrupted by Kentucky's Democratic Senator Alben Barkley, a veteran performer. Asked Barkley: "Would it be inappropriate here to paraphrase a quotation from the Bible, 'Foxes have...
...send their children to a Catholic school because there were not enough state schools," Collard -said. "It was our duty to open more state schools . . ." Last week, when the government invoked and won a vote of confidence on its subsidy proposals, Catholics all over Belgium rallied into protest action. First there was a minor tumult of Catholic students in Brussels' streets, then a one-day "strike" of 900,000 Catholic pupils throughout the country. Theo Lefevre, president of the Social Christian (Catholic) Party, next called for a "peaceful and dignified" mass demonstration in the capital at week...
...week's end, Barak collapsed and was taken to a hospital. Doctors feared he would die, but on the tenth day he made no protest when a nurse held his head and began to feed...
Williams C. Brady '57, president of the New Conservative Club, rival organization of the Conservative League, said last night. "If Seoger is a Communist the League play have good reason to complain. Otherwise, he continued, "I do not believe that they have a valid protest...
...Arthur W. Martin, chairman of Washington's Department of Zoology, said yesterday in Seattle that plans for a symposium of "Recent Advances in Invertebrate Physiology," scheduled for this summer, had been dropped. Martin head of the symposium's planning committee, explained that the other three members had resigned in protest over Washington's refusal to hire Oppenheimer as a visiting lecturer...