Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reprisal against Allied countermeasures, strikes had flared periodically in the north. In Trieste all work had stopped when local Communists were arrested. The Venice area had been tied up by a general strike in protest against an Allied-nominated committee to purge Fascists. The Partisans preferred to handle the job their...
Your issue of July 23 contains these words about Ecuador: ". . . looted for centuries by 'practical' rulers." Allow me to protest. You have been badly misinformed. Not a single president or dictator in my country has taken advantage of his position to enrich himself. Every one of them . . . has been an honest man. Dr. Velasco Ibarra, indeed, speaks frequently about graft from his predecessors as a political trick to impress the mob. It is one of his many low political tricks...
When Bundenthal claims to speak for the average G.I. and tries to wish the gaucheness and grossness of these German women on our American women, I protest...
...American Airways, pioneer on the international airways, was in a mood for fighting last week. In Washington, it chucked an indignant brief onto the Civil Aeronautics Board desk. Its charge: gross Government favoritism in granting Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. and American Airlines, Inc. postwar transatlantic routes. The protest was polite, but by mentioning Plane-Builder Howard Hughes, it left the door ajar enough to drag in T.W.A.'s president, jowly, hard-flying Jack Frye, and his friend, Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt...
...American Airway Corp.'s protest to C.A.B. on transatlantic competition (see above) was not matched by its rough-&-tumble row with a competitor in Mexico. The competitor: Aerovias Braniff, S.A., affiliate of the U.S.'s Braniff Airways Inc. (TIME, April 16). The battleground: the route from Mexico City to Merida via Vera Cruz, where Braniff made its first flight on July...