Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program, not a record. Some 680,000 who went to the polls had not cast a ballot for any presidential candidate. Truman had polled less than a majority, and his winning margin was the smallest since 1916. Many a voter had voted for him simply as a protest...
Pickets. Outside Carnegie Hall, a handful of pickets trudged, bearing signs which read: "We protest the presence of Nazi collaborators in our concert halls." Concertgoers crushed past by the hundreds and though most tried to ignore the pickets, they did so self-consciously, some with annoyance, some defiantly...
...started, before the elections, in the main administration offices of huge Bewag (Berliner Elektrizitätswerke A.G.). The Russians and their stooges, trying to destroy Bewag's predominantly non-Communist works council, had arrested six men and stationed police and plainclothesmen in the building. At a noisy, protest meeting, 3,000 Germans decided on a walkout unless their men were freed and the cops removed. Jumping on a chair, one of the works councilors shouted: "Freedom is not won by words but by actions. Let's show these so-called revolutionaries just how revolutionary...
...power play," which has transformed big-time hockey into high-pressure shinny, is producing 24% more goals than in the age of the great Howie Morenz. In New Haven last week, a protest was heard. A test game, permitting only three offense players in the attacking zone at any time, was played before 25 New England prep-school coaches. Said Richard Cuyler, co-coach of South Kent School's hockey team and a leading opponent of power-play hockey: "The power play results in more rough play in the end zone, often resulting in organized shinny, indiscriminate shooting, banging...
...weekly Die Weltwoche, and his own European feature agency, Dukas. His helper for Vol. i, No. i, was Correspondent Hans Steinitz of the Bern daily Der Bund. They timed their maiden issue to meet Mrs. Jung on her arrival from a European trip. She had wed her husband under protest last spring, feeling that journalism was "all dissension, fear and hate," and Jung had promised to prove that it ain't necessarily...