Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just seen the statement in your Oct. 15 issue, referring to the 34 U.S. clergymen who sent a protest to President Truman against the horror of the atomic bomb. You say this statement "seemed to imply that its use might have been excusable to 'save ourselves in an extremity of desperation...
...such implication was intended or contained in the protest issued by myself and my colleagues. We denounced the use of the bomb under whatsoever circumstances as a hideous atrocity and an outrage upon every principle of ethics and religion. Our nation stands disgraced before the world as the perpetrator of this monstrous crime...
Correspondents in Moscow pinched themselves to make sure they weren't dreaming. They didn't want to say it too loud, but for one eventful week their dispatches had gone through the Soviet censors-uncensored, and fast. Maybe their censorship protest (TIME. Nov. 12)-which Viacheslav M. Molotov had brushed aside as "not solid"-had done some good, after all. The Associated Press was also inclined to credit a strange interlude at the Foreign Commissar's big reception on Nov. 7. At midnight Molotov strolled over to bulky, balding APman Eddy Gilmore...
Miss Bacall occasionally remarks in a loud monotone: "I hate melodrama." Her protest does not, in any sense, stop the show. All the supporting players do their jobs efficiently. Wanda Hendrix stands out sharply as a downtrodden little...
Anticipating a protest from dealers, Bowles explained that the auto retailers' prewar mark-up of 22-25% on cars was cut to 12-13% by losses on high trade-in allowances. For the next few years Bowles thought that dealers would be able to keep trade-in allowances low. Thus they could get along with a smaller new car markup, more than make up any difference by greater volume. Last week the Ford Co. added weight to Bowles's argument. It announced that it already has orders for 300,000 cars...