Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ford to G.E. Until the crisis became so acute, most companies were satisfied with a restricted sort of giving. They financed a few scholarships and professorships, a set of research projects related to their own work. Some feared that to do more would bring howls of protest from stock holders; others wondered frankly about their legal right to give. Gradually, under the prodding of such men as Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Irving S. Olds, Laird Bell and Frank Abrams, U.S. businessmen began to realize that 1) higher education is industry's best hope for talent, and 2) industry...
...reinstatement at Bryn Mawr Hospital. The directors turned him down just before Christmas. Then the storm broke. Expressing their "shock and displeasure," 27 of Bryn Mawr's medical staff urged the directors to back down; a majority of the hospital's other staff members joined in protest. Local organizations passed pro-Hodge resolutions. Seven local Protestant churchmen sent the directors an open letter: "[Hodge] has been judged, punished and returned to us . . . Shall we deny him any occasion to employ his special talent for constructive enterprise...
Freedom to Protest. On the other side, newspapers have staunchly defended the right of desegregationists to say what they please. In Jackson (Miss.), a self-styled "Negro emancipator" named Arrington High attacked state officials so savagely in his mimeographed weekly Eagle Eye that he was arrested and fined three times on the charge of "distributing handbills without a permit." The press defended his right to print the weekly, and the county court overturned his last conviction, ruling: "No matter how great the provocation, governmental agencies cannot indulge in indignation . . .The situation [cannot] be helped by an unlawful arrest and conviction...
Filmed at Princeton, at the Institute for Advanced Study, where Oppenheimer presides as director, the show was a 30-minute digest of a 2½-hour interview. When the show went on the air the CBS switchboard at first received a "few calls of protest." Since then, the mail received at both CBS and Princeton has been heavily in Oppenheimer's favor, and Murrow reports that an additional hour-long film of the interview is being prepared for release to colleges. It will be financed by the Fund for the Republic, a division of the Ford Foundation...
David B. Cole '55, president of the Conservative League, yesterday said that he will "issue a protest to the Dean's Office. It is an obvious case of duplication of activities," he said...