Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets of Paris proclaiming the end of Louis Napoleon's Second Empire and the birth of the Third French Republic. The scene: the Place de la Republique, in the heart of working-class Paris, where only four months ago a quarter of a million Parisians marched in protest against the death of the Fourth Republic and the return to power of Charles de Gaulle. The occasion: with full pomp and calculated circumstance, De Gaulle has come to the Place de la Republique to present officially to the French people the proposed new constitution that would make him the super...
Riding a back-country protest against unemployment and spiraling prices, the Communists emerged from last summer's elections as Finland's biggest party, holding 50 out of 200 parliamentary seats. Last week, after nearly two months of delicate dickering, all but one of Finland's six non-Communist parties banded together to form a government that will give the Communists even less influence over Finnish affairs than they had before their triumph at the polls...
...circulation and influence. To prove army inefficiency, Foley printed stories on how his reporters had bluffed their way past guards into top-secret areas. When stern former Governor Sir John Harding put out a law giving him the right to suspend any newspaper without cause, Foley sent 150 protest telegrams to editors and such political leaders as Churchill and Attlee. In retaliation, the government fined him for publishing news likely to cause "alarm and despondency." Foley's fuss got the law revoked three months later...
...essential issue, said the appellate court's majority opinion, written by Judge Marion C. Matthes, was "whether overt public resistance, including mob protest, constitutes sufficient cause to nullify an order of the federal court." To that question the Circuit Court gave a stern answer: "The time has not yet come in these United States when an order of a federal court must be whittled away, watered down or shamefully withdrawn in the face of violent and unlawful acts of individual citizens...
...Vegas, one of three nightspots that had featured bare-bosomed chorus girls bowed to the Catholic Church's protest that nude shows were contrary to the moral and divine law (TIME, Aug. 25). But while Beldon Katelman, president of El Rancho Vegas, apologized to church authorities and put his girls back in bras, the Stardust staunchly retained its twelve nudes and the Dunes added four to its original...