Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political news of the week was the whopping increase in New York City's registration-28% over 1942. In the past, a high registration usually made Democrats jubilant. But this time there were few Democratic cries of joy. The rise in registration meant a protest vote. This year the voters could only protest against the Democrats...
...major radio speech reporting on the Paris Peace Conference, Byrnes also replied to former Secretary of Commerce Wallace's protest that the United States is pursuing a "get tough with Russia" policy. Neither the word "tough" nor "soft," he said, accurately describes "our earliest efforts to be patient but firm...
...British Government called the statement "most unfortunate," said it "may well jeopardize a settlement in Palestine." In a towering rage, mild Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister, sent a sharp personal note of protest to Truman, went to his country home, Chequers, to cool off for the weekend. Britons professed to fear that Truman's statement would incite Palestine Jews to new disorders and uncompromising demands. The Jewish underground army had already ended the "truce" of nonviolence. Arab leaders angrily attacked the Truman plan, said it could only be forced through if backed by half a million U.S. troops...
...housewives joined the protest over the petroleum famine. Before Mexico took the oil industry away from its foreign owners in 1938, most Mexicans cooked on charcoal braziers. Then, with sudden oil wealth, the Avila Camacho Government ordered landlords to furnish kerosene stoves. A domestic revolution ensued. Last week Josefina Novarra, 23, stood in a Mexico City kerosene queue and spoke her mind. "Look how we have to stand in line to get a little kerosene for our stoves," she grumbled. "And they want certain kinds of cans or they won't sell you any. Damn the whole Pemex outfit...
Walt W. Rostow (Yale '36) was a Rhodes Scholar just before the war. He enlivened many an Oxford sherry party by banging out a syncopated protest of his own composition (Claustrophobia Blues) on the piano. When not busy harmonizing or playing rugger for Balliol College, he was apt to be heavily engaged in a bull session. Later he got his Ph.D. at Yale and taught economics at Columbia before spending 32 wartime months abroad, ending up as an O.S.S. major in bombing intelligence. On that assignment he got to know W. Averell Harriman, who as U.S. Ambassador later...