Word: protestations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Students Protest...
Songwriters Burrello and Murray thought they had made a pretty effective protest record, ordered 500 copies for disk jockeys. But in two weeks the composers have received orders for more than 100,000 copies, and the demand shows no sign of falling off. Tunesmith Murray is frightened. He is afraid, he says, that the team will become known as the "Horrible Twins" and will never be able to write anything serious again. Worse than that, the U.S. public may "have a secret desire for really horrible music. It's getting into the psychiatric...
...which, they fear, would cost them even more of their rights. Recently vandals, protected by Perón's police, burned Buenos Aires' famed old Jockey Club and destroyed priceless art treasures. Some of the club members demanded that the club close down its race track in protest. Cooler heads argued that this might prompt the government to nationalize horse racing. As a result, the board of directors adopted a "realistic" position, trooped dutifully off to assure the Minister of Interior that the club would not close its track. Last week Perón's Congress nationalized...
...horses pulling a hearse through seas of blood. Atop the carriage sits a monster with a pack full of corpses; his snorting horses trample the world's culture, and in his wake float evil, lobster-sized germs. At bottom, two suppliant hands show mankind's futile protest against the horrors of modern war. Standing alone is the Communist version of mankind's protector: a heroic Red peace partisan, with a peace dove shield. The other panel is Picasso's personal dream of peace, where anything is possible. Picasso's trees bear golden fruit, even small...
...Sprague, 80, longtime (1913-41) Harvard professor of banking and finance, and internationally famed monetary authority; in Boston. "Sound Money" Sprague was an adviser to the League of Nations, the Weimar Republic's Reichsbank, the Bank of England. A Treasury Department brain-truster in 1933, he quit in protest against the New Deal's dollar-devaluation policies, wrote his widely quoted Recovery and Common Sense, advocating lower prices and free competition...