Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grounds, Schoolboy threw one that did a dipsy-doodle. It veered crazily downward the same way a knuckle ball does-and everybody knew that knucklers are not Schoolboy Rowe's specialty. The Giant batsman struck out by a foot. Manager Mel Ott rushed out of the dugout to protest; he demanded to see the ball...
...more than 100% in a month, was 320,000 Chinese dollars a picul (133⅓ lbs.). Worried authorities sought to bridle it with a program of ration cards, ceiling prices, warnings to hoarders and manipulators, and assurances of ample supply. But many a rice shop, in fear and protest and in the face of restless queues, stubbornly stayed shut. And unhappy Little Happiness still sang his bitter song...
Local 431 was established in 1935 as a protest against the Teachers Oath Bill which proposed to institute a rigid check of all educator's allegience to the Constitution. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, was the leading figure in the early organization of the Teachers Union here...
Qualunquist Leader Giannini rose to protest. Communist deputies shouted: "Assassin!" Communist Carlo Farini advanced with clenched fists upon the rightist deputies. He was followed by a strong Communist detachment. Then Pietro Nenni, a follower of the party line, led a sizable Socialist task force into the fray. Inkwells hurtled. Chairs were swung. Fists landed with a satisfying thud on legislative noses. Nearly 200 deputies took part in the brawl. Centrists tried frantically to untangle the Right and the Left...
...Communist-controlled General Confederation of Italian Labor called a general strike in protest against the Sicilian "massacre." In most cities, the strike lasted only a few hours. Nevertheless, it was a grim reminder that the Communists, through their control of Italy's trade unions, have the country's economic life by the throat. Before 50,000 workers at Rome's Basilica of Constantine, Communist Labor Leader Nazzareno Buschi cried: "The workers do not want civil war, but our enemies, and above all, the Government, must be warned...