Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first the prophet was gratified at the stir he was causing. Twice the London Times telephoned him to ask if dissolution was still certain. From New Brunswick, Canada, one Ernest W. Cannon called up to protest over 4,000 miles of wire that his wife had read Long's prophecy and had refused to go on pickling cauliflower. "The Lord," said Long coldly, "cannot wait until worldly tasks like pickling are finished." When Cannon's wife got on the phone, the prophet said: "Pray at noon, 2 and 8 p.m., and ready yourself...
...austere French Finance Ministry, classifying shaves, haircuts, shampoos and permanents as "luxuries," ordered the tax on them raised from the present 25% to 50% on Oct. 1. Last week, in protest, 10,000 coiffeurs abstained from work for 24 hours. Shop owners turned the air blue at a mass meeting in the Cirque d'Hiver. The coiffeurs feared diminishing tips, the owners feared vanishing profits...
...Protest issue" June 13, the Spectator attacked the Emergency Council's and the King's Crown Advisory Committee's, infringement of its independence: "An intolerable situation has arisen. A willful attempt by Emergency Council is being made to grasp the reins of Spectator editorial policy so tightly that Spectator will never again be the master of its own fate.... The entire Spectator staff, Managing Board, and Associate News Board, bitterly protest this action. No one, neither the Council nor a committee of King's Crown Advisory Board has a right to approve of Spectator's editorial policy in advance...
...leaders of Columbia's other extra-curricular groups backed the protest. The Jester, undergraduate humor magazine, published a front page editorial, but the Emergency Council denied distribution of the issue until a mimeographed sheet had been stapled to its cover...
...Dean's office committee selections were immediately approved by the Emergency Council. This action drew swift and vociferous protest from almost all extra-curricular leaders...