Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is only death," sighed a dainty dancer at a huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly dispatched to Nanking. From headquarters at the Security and Happiness Hotel, Yen and her henchwomen bore down on the National Economic Council, the Ministries of the Interior and Social affairs, the Legislative Yuan. Functionaries sent word that they were out, so the girls left notes...
...chairmen of 17 Shanghai business and industrial organizations sent a protest to President Truman: "We had no opportunity of presenting our views. . . . We have no intention to whitewash . . . but ... it helps no one to adopt the pontifical attitude of the denizen of an ivory tower...
...little wooden hut in Calcutta, 78-year-old Mohandas K. Gandhi last week drank a glass of sweetened lime juice, thus ending a 73-hour fast (his first since 1943) in protest against communal violence. Half an hour later a dozen Hindu and Moslem youths came to beg Gandhi's forgiveness for rioting, solemnly promised not to do it again. At his bare brown feet the penitents placed big bundles containing knives, rifles, a much-used Sten gun and a dozen U.S.-made hand grenades...
...Protest. Avellanada's death marked the end of a tumultuous week at the school. The student body, mostly boys of poorer families, has long been politically conscious, took part in the turbulence from which APRA rose a quarter-century ago. Despite a recent law banishing politics from schools, it is still a bastion of Aprista influence...
...Negro students; a recent school board ordinance, designed to end school segregation in Gary once & for all, had shifted about 35 Negro boys & girls into the lower grades of Emerson. When school opened last week, about 1,000 of Emerson's 1,750 pupils stayed home in protest. Next day 100 more stayed home; the third day 1,300 were out. Not all the later strikers were in sympathy with the strike: their parents, fearing trouble, had kept them home...