Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offices of TIME'S Letters department there is a spot known as the "Poet's Corner." Thousands of people every year find occasion and reason to write letters to TIME. A good many of these writers feel the urge to frame their inspired praise or protest in verse form. When such a verse letter comes in, the "Poet's Corner" replies in kind. The reply is usually written by Gwyneth Kahn, one of the eight writers in the Letters department, who quickly shifts from her normal prose technique to verse form on these occasions...
...basic crops, e.g., wheat, are supported by the Federal Government, drought and falling livestock prices have brought a great outcry from the farm belt. Farm income has been generally falling since 1947, but that fact does not cool the farmer's ire in 1953. Shrill cries of protest have arisen, and they are directed at one man: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson...
...Clubs The Post started on its series right after the school board dropped Deputy Superintendent of Schools George Ebey (TIME, July 27) as too "controversial," even though there was never any evidence that he was a Communist or any question of his loyalty. Postmen knew that much of the protest against Ebey came from local women who had once helped prevent Pasadena's ex-Superintendent of Schools Willard E. Goslin ("A very controversial figure") from speaking in Houston. They had also helped force the schools to ban a U.N. essay contest. But when Newsman O'Leary began...
...Controversial." The Minute Women's protests were remarkably effective. "Many public officials," reported O'Leary, "who might . . . defy a lone organization . . . would be loath to go against the wishes of 500 individuals." The Quakers' American Friends Service Committee was refused one meeting hall after a protest that "Alger Hiss attended a . . . Quaker meeting." Dr. Rufus E. Clement, president of Atlanta University and the first Negro ever to become a member of the present Atlanta Board of Education, was invited to lecture at a Houston Methodist church. Minute Women joined in a loud protest that...
...Sent a protest direct to the President...