Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Letters Department contained a protest from rich Reformer Roger Baldwin (then as now director of the American Civil Liberties Union), who advocated the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy; and an explanation from the Editors that by correcting a mistake Calvin Coolidge made about a baseball game, no slur was intended on the Chief Executive...
...plodding grimly before the various entrances. Their signs proclaimed that "New York has 36 WPA art exhibits in one week -Philadelphia only ten in a year." That evening the dynamic doctor got the jump on reporters by suggesting that they, too, picket the museum and the Art Project "in protest against the Fascistic way it is being operated." When he heard this, Director Kimball relaxed his dignified silence for the first time to say that "Argyrol" Barnes's complaints were a lot of rubbish...
Apparently it was Franco's late bombing of Teruel which prompted Mr. Hearst's outburst. But no protest, even though rational, could induce the armed powers of today to return to the ideal of eliminating barbarism from warfare. The simple fact is that nothing, until the world shakes bands upon the eradication of war, will prevent the horror...
Before he went to Washington this week to take his oath amid a storm of liberal protest John Milton declared, aping the Hague idiom: "I ain't never been arrested. I ain't never been indicted. I ain't never been convicted...
Britain's greatest and most completely self-made philanthropist is today Lord Nuffield, raised in the New Year's Honors list from baron to viscount (TIME, Jan. 10). About a month ago Nufneld registered privately in high Fleet Street quarters a mild protest at the habit English reporters had of describing him as plain and hearty "Bill" Morris, the bucolic bicycle maker of Oxford who cleverly expanded into building Morris cars and grew so rich in 25 years that to Oxford University alone he has given $17,700,000 (TIME...