Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman, the choice of Douglas marked a widening breach with the New Deal. Douglas was Franklin Roosevelt's first director of the budget, but the New Deal was not two years old when he resigned in bitter protest against its policy of deficit spending. He backed Landon in 1936, helped organize the "Democrats for Willkie" in 1940. The New Deal domestic policy seemed to him to be verging on "tyranny...
...tell us how Shady Hill School was founded by two Harvard professors in protest at the backwardness of Cambridge's public schools [TIME, Feb. 10]. Did it never occur to these highly intelligent men . . . that they could have turned the public schools into a series of Shady Hills? . . . We will have good public schools in Cambridge and everywhere else if or when we adopt the philosophy of the old Vermonter (mentioned by Dorothy Canfield) who said: "What's not good enough for my children's not good enough for anybody's children." MARGARET LEE SOUTHARD Hingham...
...Annapolis, when British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel rose to address Maryland's House of Delegates as its guest, six Jewish legislators walked out in protest...
Murmurs of protest increased hourly as the distillery repeated the renowned six-da cheer, but substituted "crofts" for the crucial "Fight!" Driven desperate by repetition of the blurb, one brass artist began a substitute commercial featuring the theme...
...appointment, early in 1940, of Sir Samuel Hoare as British Ambassador to Franco Spain evoked cries of protest not only from Liberal Englishmen, but from many Americans as well. With a long record of innocuous service in various Cabinet posts, and with the memory of his Italy-appeasing agreement with Laval in 1935 still rankling in the national breast, Hoare was denounced by many as too half-hearted and vacillating for the straight talking, firm-handed brand of diplomacy required in the Spanish mission...