Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four States, W.Va., mothers of about 60 white pupils at the Annabelle grade school kept their children home in protest against the admission of 13 Negroes, said they would demand the dismissal of Principal Lloyd Seccuro. ¶ In Hutchins, Texas, four Negro pupils unsuccessfully tried to register at the "white" Linfield elementary school, learned the state would maintain a ban on desegregation for at least another year...
...that they would never give up the fight for EDC. The Socialist Party expelled Jules Moch and two other prominent anti-EDC rebels. The M.R.P. expelled three. Three pro-EDC Ministers resigned from the Cabinet, exactly counterbalancing the three anti-EDC Gaullists who had resigned three weeks ago in protest against Mendès' compromise proposals. Forced to his first Cabinet reshuffle, Mendès brought three new EDC supporters into the government, got one of the Gaullists to return-a balance designed to demonstrate that Mendès was seeking a substitute formula which "good Europeans" could support...
These millions of voters include many hundreds of thousands who crossed over from the Democratic to the Republican party in several key states in the 1952 elections. They probably will protest in November by not voting...
Another West Coast-drama entry was CBS's Life with Father, starring Leon Ames and Lurene Tuttle. One of the greatest disappointments of last season, Life now has a new outlook. Instead of blustering about every trifle, Leon Ames now restricts his bellowing to an occasional protest of "Oh, no!" Lurene Tuttle has shed much of last year's archness, and the four children (with the exception of Master Harlan) are more recognizably human. But with the acting satisfactorily toned down, the actors last week were betrayed by a plot that threatened to go three ways at once...
...AMERICAN week was staged (without government sanction) in Switzerland by 3,000 watchmakers as a protest against the U.S. boost in watch tariffs. Some shopkeepers refused to sell American cigarettes, nylons or Coca-Cola...