Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week Garry Davis, self-appointed Citizen of the World, rolled up his sleeping bag and put on his scuffed leather flight jacket. Then he headed for Cherche-Midi military prison, on Paris' Left Bank. He told the prison concierge that as a gesture of protest against injustice, he wanted to be locked up with Jean Moreau, a young French conscientious objector whom the French police had recently jailed. The concierge was very sorry, but the director of the prison was not around; perhaps, if M. Davis came back the next morning, the director might accommodate...
...Grab. Dannie Heineman, whose friends and associates include such bigwigs as Herbert Hoover, Spain's Duke of Alba and Britain's Viscount Swinton, prevailed upon Belgium and Canada to protest March's actions. Franco, who had praised March for his "audacious nationalism," brushed them...
...because they were the only form in which so many pictures of world personalities were available. Czechs see very few pictures of world personalities these days. All they see are behind-the-Iron-Curtain personalities. The exhibit drew more crowds than ever before. We're not going to protest because this is the kind of minor day-to-day trouble you have running an American library in this part of the world. I'd have to be making protests every other...
...such protest of pepper-gingerbread
Edna Ruggles did, in sooth, have a protest. She was fired by the Indianapolis Glove Co. at Marion, Ind. for uttering loud and profane reflections on the ancestry of her glove machine. Edna and her union (the A.F.L.'s International Glove Workers) protested to Louis Plost, Chicago trial examiner of the National Labor Relations Board. After due reflection, Examiner Plost last week handed down his decision...