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Word: protestations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chronicle quoted him as lamenting: "I am sorry now that I quit the concert stage because of politics. I see now that I should have gone on with my work." To some, these words sounded like a contrite solo, but Robeson himself soon drowned them out with the bizarre protest that the capitalist press was maligning him as a nonCommunist. Rumbled Robeson: "These nice people are trying to make me as they want me-to save me from my better self. I have not changed my views in the slightest about anything!" His afterthought: "I must make a speech after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 17, 1958 | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...blamed for rising real estate taxes, won 1956 re-election by only 25,000 votes -and the First District does not include his areas of greatest strength. But Foss's greatest handicap this year is the same that got George McGovern elected in the first place: the Midwestern protest against Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson for proposing lower farm subsidies-which has not subsided one whit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Foss for Congress | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...Midwest's spunkiest small dailies (circ. 13,225). In six years on the job, outspoken Editor Hames tromped on many high-placed toes. Yet, when word got out last week that Herb Hames was being fired, Ottawa's church and community leaders spontaneously banded together to protest the Hames dismissal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fired for Valor | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Ousted. To Ottawans, it was plain that Editor (and Rotary Club President) Hames had been fired over the hospital issue. Packing into Ottawa's Heinz Café, a committee of 61 business and professional leaders held two protest meetings to urge Hames's reinstatement. Said one committee member: "If Herb Hames is fired, freedom of the press is dead in Ottawa." When the Republican-Times lamely announced the editor's "severance in the near future," Ottawa's Protestant Ministerial Association expressed to the publishers its support of Roman Catholic Hames. Said the resolution: "We feel that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fired for Valor | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Before it could even begin to function, the all-military junta brought down a storm of protest from civilian rebels fearful of a new military dictatorship. Larrazabal named two civilian members, Top Industrialist Eugenic Mendoza and onetime University Professor Bias Lamberti. To reassure the civilians even further, Larrazabal then named a 13-man Cabinet with only one military member: Air Force Colonel Jesús Maria Castro LeÓn, a leader of the original anti-Pérez Jiménez plot. The civilians and some members of the armed forces were still displeased. Two junta colonels, they protested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Proceed with Caution | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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