Word: protesters
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Last week Mayor Moore was on the warpath again. To protest making Electra a whistle stop for express trains, he had thousands of plastic whistles molded in the shape of locomotives. He made a trip to the state capital at Austin, passed them out to the governor, the legislature (legislators cheered him admiringly and blew their whistles in chorus) and everybody else he met. Then he demanded a special hearing by the Texas Railroad Commission...
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29--(APE)--One of the stormiest legal disputes in year threatened to tear the Supreme Court apart tonight as Justice Felix Frankfurter, former southpaw mound ace, threatened to resign from the nation's highest tribunal in protest of Chief Justice Vinson's ruling Thursday that Lionel "The Toy" Train was unconstitutional and could not play in yesterday's classic, won by the Crimson...
Laski is not a newcomer to Harvard. In 1916 he came here from London to teach Political science and to study at the Law School. During the Boston police strike of 1919 he publicly expressed sympathy with the strikers, and drew a storm of protest from the Boston public. President Lowell defended him before the public, but reprimanded him privately. Laski returned to London a year later...
...University Protest...
...manner in which Fr. Feeney has been "defying his superiors" has not been disclosed, but both Harvard and Radcliffe officials have denied making any protest to the Church about his activities. The Jesuit priest has often attacked Harvard College for allegedly weakening the faith of Catholic students and has advocated withdrawal of some of them to Catholic colleges...