Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little bearing on the situation. For no matter what any poll will ultimately prove, the University can now sit tight for two months and let the present annoyance over food die down to an occasional whimper. Given this respite, the University may conceivably survive the rumbling storm of student protest this year, unless something extraordinary pops up again in the dining halls which student opinion cannot stomach...
...Greek cabinet passed a special order in council which, for the first time, would allow a case of this kind to be brought before a court of pardons. When the government ordered the army to postpone Michael's execution, the military governor of Athens resigned his post in protest. Almost overnight the news reached the northern fron tier. Through the thin cold air of the mountains the loudspeakers of General Markos jeered triumphantly at the government troops: "You see, there is one law for the rich, another for the poor. They executed others for the same thing...
...only by storing it in Government bins. When the Republican Both Congress refused to appropriate funds to build additional Government storage space, many farmers were unable to find room for all their crops, hence were unable to get crop loans on their surplus, and voted the Democratic ticket in protest...
...loud cheers and the great glee of right-wing leaders, James Carey and Walter Reuther, Murray added: "Let these apostles of Communism ... stand up and be counted like men." Feinglass and Henderson made squeaks of protest, defending their right to think as they pleased, attacking U.S. policy as giving aid to fascists and Nazis...
Fearful of reprisals from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the doctors squawked only to each other, shunned public protest. But the Legion pulled no punches. "Rash injustice and discrimination," said William V. G. Neish, president of the Quebec command. The Quebec City branch protested against "the manner in which an R.C.A.M.C. war veteran was set aside to place a French refugee." "Under what circumstances," it asked, "was he granted a special license...