Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then two more ships arrived in Haifa with 1,500 more refugees. This time Haifa Jews set up their own barbed-wire enclosure, gathered inside to hear underground leaders urge them to protest the deportation of "our flesh and blood." But again resisting refugees were transferred to British ships, again the transports sailed for Cyprus...
...before last week. Yet most of the news that flows in & out of the U.S. moves via "PreWi" (rhymes with peewee), a highly mechanized common carrier that calls itself "copy boy for the press of the world." PreWi was organized by a syndicate of newspapers 17 years ago, in protest against the oldline cable companies, whose stiff rates and habit of sidetracking low-rate press dispatches had annoyed publishers in World War I. PreWi now also carries radio-photos and voice broadcasts, had a mobile station working from a Normandy beachhead on D-day plus...
...that the whole town took up the cry of angry protest. Six Providence lawyers volunteered legal help. Most of the town's veterans' organizations and the Good Government Club rallied around. There were mass meetings, hangings in effigy, furious speechmaking. A minor intramural row had turned into a major political fight. The biggest heroes in the city were handsome, hefty Patrolmen Frank Klich, Lucien Tessier, John Byrnes and John Gorman-now nicknamed the "Fearless Four...
...Little Flower almost did it. When he recommended to the UNRRA Council, meeting in Geneva's League of Nations Palace, that UNRRA cease operations in Europe by Oct. 1 for lack of cash, he stirred up a whirlwind of protest. Seven small nations, backed by Russia, pleaded that UNRRA aid be continued. Said Poland's Hilary Mine: "Those who suggest liquidation remind me of architects who, after great effort, build a house but stop short of a roof...
...week's end, 61 titled Moslems-seven knights, 28 Khan Bahadurs, 26 Khan Sahibs-had solemnly renounced their British honors in protest against wholehearted British cooperation with the Congress Party, which represents India's overwhelming, untitled majority...