Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subcommittee of the FSCP, consisting of three faculty members, examined the copy and demanded substantial changes--elimination of some stories, considerable revision of others. Landscapes never appeared, as the editors and authors were not willing to comply with FSCP's demands. Little student protest resulted...
Critic John Ciardi's boorish assault on Anne Lindbergh's verse [Feb. 18] sounds suspiciously like the hysterical protest of one who fears that readers may be lured away from the jabberwocky school of modern verse, of which he considers himself the grand high panjandrum...
Waving placards and shouting "Veto!", some 7,500 wrought-up Indianans marched into the Statehouse in Indianapolis last week to protest against a "right-to-work" bill passed, after long debate, by the Republican-dominated state legislature. After huddling with union delegates, Republican Governor Harold W. Handley, a protege of Indiana's Senator Bill Jenner, told them that though he disliked the bill himself, he would let it become law without his signature. When the crowd got the word, boos thundered in the Statehouse corridors, and demonstrators tried to push past the cops guarding the governor's office...
...group of New York and Boston alumni have petitioned the Alumni Association to nominate Laurence E. Bunker '26 for the Board of Overseers. The New Bedford Standard-Times yesterday reported that the action was taken in protest against what some termed the University's "pro-Oppenheimer" policy...
...reason for the action was given to the Alumni Association, but the Standard- Times reported that several of the petitioners, who were unidentified, said their action could be considered a protest against the Overseers' approval of the selection of J. Robert Oppenheimer as 1957 William James Lecturer...