Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paulette Goddard took her own Hollywood hairdresser to London to keep her glamorous for a British film. So twelve local hairdressers walked off the lot in protest. Picture production stopped for three days-at a cost of $12,000 a day to Producer Alexander Korda. Miss Goddard kept her hairdresser...
...last convulsive protest, the Democratic minority warningly predicted a presidential veto of the bill. But the G.O.P. was unmoved. With 18 Democrats joining 46 Republicans, the Senate approved the measure. It summarily outlaws the nearly $6 billion pending suits for back travel and makeready time, and makes illegal for the future all such claims not covered by "custom" or contract. It also relieves employers of any liability for back damages as long as they were acting in "good faith" at the time...
Back home in Britain last week, the people were only slowly recovering from The Crisis. Some of the worst floods in history were wreaking havoc throughout the country. And at blitz-damaged Buckingham Palace 150 repairmen were holding a protest meeting in "disgust at being employed on such a site when the suffering of the working class through inadequate housing is deplorable." "Personally," Elizabeth told a South African M.P., "I feel rather guilty for being here enjoying myself when the people at home are suffering so." It was a statement worthy of a future Queen, not only because...
Prepared by the University-wide Committee on Discrimination and handed to those entering the doors of the Club 100, the leaflets registered a protest against the use of the Club because of its discriminatory policies and asserted that at least two other meeting places had been offered and turned down by the Red Cross governing board...
Fischelis read Thomas Wolfe's Farewell Letter to Foxhall Edwards, from "You Can't Go Home Again," an evenly paced, compelling piece of prose. Franklin chose for his selection Robert Emmet's "Protest Against Sentence as a Traitor," a strongly-worded denunciation of the prejudice and ignorance of the convicting judges, Miller recited "The Spirit of Liberty," a speech by Judge Learned Hand '93 on the ocassion of a naturalization ceremony...