Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some living costs had risen 600%. Cities and towns rippled with unrest and uneasy protest...
...Washington, only whites were let in to the opening of Maxwell Anderson's new play, Joan of Lorraine. Pickets protested. Star Ingrid Bergman went on with the show, but race discrimination, said she, made the capital a poor place for an opening. Playwright Robert E. Sherwood proposed that the show world teach Washington a lesson. "I believe," said he, "that it is the duty of all of us who work in the American theater ... to protest ... by agreeing that we shall keep our productions out of Washington until the ban against Negroes is abolished...
Petitions have found their way to the slide rulers' bulletin boards where 1,500 students and staff have already fixed their signatures in angry protest. Impetus was also received this week when the advisory board of publications went on record against the outrage that has dogged Technology throughout its 30 year history on this side of the river...
...Chance of Peace. Not only the Communists but all the fellow travelers and many misguided liberals will protest against such a program. They will regard it as provocative and as leading to war. But if the real threat of war with Russia is understood it will become apparent to all but the willfully blind that there is no hope of peace in a policy which plays into the hands of Russia's ideological strategy. The program may also be a target for some American conservatives who do not understand that the American identification of democracy with free enterprise...
...iron curtain about him and glared. A few minutes later, a customs inspector requested him to sign a baggage declaration. The diplomat, now fuming, refused, started off to call the State Department. The customs officials reconsidered, allowed him to stalk off without signing. The Soviet Embassy made formal protest; the State Department began investigating...