Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strom Thurmond had not been an original, out & out advocate of bolting. At Philadelphia he had supported the nomination of Georgia's Senator Richard Russell as a way of registering a protest without walking out. But in the end he decided that the State's Rights Party was the best thing for him. South Carolina was a hot center of revolt and Thurmond had his eye on the Senate seat of Olin D. Johnston for 1950. He probably had more to gain than to lose by running as the rebels' candidate for President. He was picked because...
...Changing World. After November, what about the Dixiecrats? The chances are that they will disappear as a political entity. Having made their protest under the most dramatic circumstances possible -a presidential election-their well-to-do but amateur backers will probably return to their businesses. It is doubtful whether there are enough politicians in the party to keep it going after that. The chances are that the Dixiecrats will once again become indistinguishable from regular Southern Democrats. With the Northern Democrats out of power in Washington, the authority against which the Dixiecrats revolted will have been removed. All hands...
...time for anyone to try and have fun in Berlin. Next day, the U.S. Military Government sent a formal protest against this latest instance of armed Russians entering the U.S. sector. Then the city once more relaxed into its normal state of tension...
...with her, for Buchenwald's operation. In a routine review of sentences, twelve of her co-defendants had also received sentence reductions. But Use had been the most vivid of the defendants, and she had received the review board's biggest reprieve; Use became the focus of protest. From all sides the U.S. Army was boiled in angry...
...been rounded up. Also accused as a plotter was 50-year-old John F. Griffiths, businessman, ex-college instructor (University of Southern California), and onetime cultural attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, the state-owned radio called for a one-day general strike of protest...