Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calories a day (U.S. average: 3,450). Standing as far as possible from Marie Antoinette, Cripps drily said: "The public must expect many fewer and much less attractive cakes and buns." He has eliminated all imports of U.S. tobacco, and faced a storm of protest over the ban on gasoline for pleasure driving. This issue brought the Labor Government close to defeat last week in Parliament: at a very late session, when many weary Laborites had gone home, the Tories called for a vote in which Labor squeaked through...
...democratic process in China, while not perhaps as up-to-date as that of Kansas City, was not wholly different from it. When the Kuomintang announced this week its list for the Legislative Yuan, old-guard members who were not up for renomination let out a howl of protest. They had fed so long and faithfully at the public trough-and was this to be their reward...
...that is the minimum sentence possible under Kentucky's armed robbery law, it is high time Kentucky's citizens demand a revision. . . . A child of 13 . . . should not be governed by the same laws which apply to adult citizens. . . . We [have written] a letter of protest to the Kentucky state legislature, and hope that other decent citizens will do the same, to help protect our country's children from such medieval laws...
...That Was War." To travel round Germany now is to realize how strongly, even fiercely, that trait of looking after their own is re-emerging among the Germans. Last year they would not have dared protest as vehemently as they did last week over the revised Anglo-American list of factories to be removed for reparations-though the new list has only 682 plants compared to the original figure...
...home side of the stands didn't expose an exceptional knowledge of Walter Camp's great game. When Chuck Roche did his best to lift the pigskin over the heads of the entire New Brunswick line and unloaded it on the goal line, there were murmers of unreasoned protest against the referee ruling the fumble Scarlet property...