Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Longtime statesman, Eton-&-Oxford-trained Robert Cecil, 54, is better known as Viscount Cranborne (the honorary title he used until he succeeded his father as the Marquess of Salisbury ten months ago). He resigned as Parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs (along with his boss Anthony Eden) in protest against appeasement of Italy in 1938. Two years later he returned to office as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs...
Could it be that this year's class was less bright or less well-prepared than other years? Hardly, argued irate students and parents. After hearing their protest, the New York Board of Education last week agreed that the exam was "too tough," dropped the passing grade to 55, so that 1,800 more students could graduate...
Meanwhile, anti-UMT publicity agents reported that "bus and train caravans" were pouring into Washington from all over the country to protest the proposed bills. A round table discussion opened the assembly yesterday, and delegates will climb Capitol Hill today to apply pressure on Congress against the measure...
...fact that the New Student was singled out for Administrative disapproval can be taken only as an act of political repression," the protest declared...
Council action on the HYD protest would not be forthcoming, Weld said, pointing out that a full investigation, which would examine the case of other magazines, including the Advocate and the Progressive, might take several weeks...