Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the New? As expected, many an industry yelped in protest. They argued that the system had actually helped competition: it had kept small producers from being put out of business by price-cutting mammoths. U.S. Steel's Chairman Irving S. Olds cried that elimination of basing points would result in wide dislocations of industry. He appealed to Congress to nullify the Court's decision with a new law. But there was no disputing FTC's stand that the system had caused cementmakers, and many another manufacturer, to set identical-and often rigidly high-prices on products...
Many times during its early existence, Pierian ran into the strict rulings of the Faculty, and many are the resolutions of protest in the records. For example, in 1839, one particular dictum aroused the following comment...
Franz Czisch refused to protest the election. "It is no good," he said. "Even if Konrad is removed I would not continue the job. The people have spoken." Charles M. La Follette, former Congressman from Indiana, now Military Governor of Würt-temburg-Baden, ordered an immediate investigation, expressed "grave concern...
...snowballing opposition to the University's curtailment of Geography picked up two dozen more adherents over the weekend, as almost every graduate student in the Department of Regional Planning affixed his signature to a protest letter to President Conant...
...Coat for Cumshaw. But the ultimate protest did not take place in the Assembly Hall. It worked itself out in a cheap hotel in a grubby lane of Nanking's crowded red-light district (nicknamed "Confucius' Temple...