Word: protesters
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...Marching Men." Lew lasted as Budget Director for just 18 months. When New Deal public works and pump-priming began, Lew Douglas knew he was licked. He went up to Hyde Park to protest. Replied Roosevelt: "But if we don't continue there will be revolutions and marching men." Lew disagreed. That day he handed in his resignation...
This is not a serious protest against the Harvard food situation. I would doubtless have been well-satisfied with our fare and prices if I hadn't seen what Yale offers. What I do mean to say is, if Yale can do so well, we ought to be able to too. William Davenport...
...Five Protestants, led by Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert* of the Federal Council of Churches, called at the White House to protest against what they consider the unconstitutional appointment of Episcopalian Myron Taylor as presidential representative to the Vatican. Said Dr. Cavert afterwards: "The President reaffirmed that his appointment of Mr. Taylor was a temporary expedient...
Even more disturbing to the Communion was the recent statement made by Franco himself to a U.S. admirer, Publicist Merwin K. Hart. Franco told Hart that "other faiths which are not Catholic enjoy liberty in Spain. . . ." Said the letter of protest: "It is evident that the chapels about which the Chief of State spoke . . . constitute public exercises of cult, against the letter and spirit of the formula accepted by Rome. . . . These facts constitute a new attack on Catholic unity. The argument given that these declarations are necessary because of the campaign abroad by elements opposed to our country must...
Avoiding a direct controversy, Niebuhr implied that numerous ambiguous areas in both Christianity and Communism were not mutually exclusive. He consistently took the historical slant on Communism, declaring that essentialy it was a protest against a Christian ethic which had made property the instrument of virtue...