Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election had been quiet and unemotional, but there was no mistaking the fact that the majority of Americans had cast a protest vote. It was a cold but nonetheless angry voice raised against many things: price muddles, shortages, black markets, strikes, Government bungling and confusion, too much Government in too many things. The majority of the people were fed up with all that...
Democrats and Republicans leaped to protest in unison. An anonymous Administration spokesman called the idea "utterly fantastic" (it would lose the Democrats the last remnants of federal patronage). Buzzed Oregon's G.O.P. Senator Wayne Morse: "Blind partisanship" (it would give a Democrat the power to appoint a Republican President...
Harry Bridges: "A cry of protest against Truman and his complete betrayal of the Roosevelt program and promises...
Take the Medal. But next day Chicago rang with protests over the first organized outbreak of squatting in the U.S. since the housing crisis began. Cried the chairman of the board of the Public Housing Association: "If their acts are condoned ... a land rush will be on every time a housing project is ready for occupancy." The Chicago Housing Authority held a staff meeting, sent the squatters letters asking them to get out. It was explained that the apartments had been left vacant, not through carelessness, but because the CHA had insisted on repairs before taking possession. Meanwhile other veterans...
...which has suffered so much through the war. To ignore this is to bid for a new world war. Mere numbers around a council table like this cannot decide whether or not the birthplace of the third world war already exists. I serve notice that the Yugoslav government may protest...