Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resolutions passed, included one directing telegrams of protest to President Truman, Attorney General Tom Clark, and Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia, in regard to the recent lynchings and race troubles in the south. A second telegram objected to the limitation of negro enlistments in the new Army and Navy enlistment drives...
...forestall popular protest, politically astute Miguel Alemán would have to deal with wealthy independents, mostly Texans, rather than the familiar major oil empires. A reorganized Pemex would undoubtedly supervise the new setup in order to sustain the necessary fagade of national control. But the independents have reservations: they want guarantees of long tenure, assurances against labor strife. It will probably take a lot of gelatine to make the scheme jell...
...southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. The British and French gain at the expense of Italy: the Dodecanese Islands go to British-controlled Greece; the communes of Briga and Tenda and other bits of the Italian Alps go to France. But Italy is allowed to keep the South Tyrol over Austrian protest. Trieste, instead of going to either Yugoslavia or Italy, is to be internationalized under the control...
...speaker, who has never run the House smoothly, opened the session by ruling out of order a question by Progressive Conservative member Gordon Fraser. Progressive Conservative spokesman Gordon Graydon promptly bounded to his feet in protest. Then the galleries witnessed one of the worst shows that the House has put on in years...
Some lowans liked what they saw-others sent letters of protest to the show's director, Lester D. Longman, who is trying to convince his fellow lowans that there is more to art than Grant Wood ever dreamed of. Wrote Editor Don Berry of the Indianola Record Herald and Tribune (circ. 3,693): Such paintings could only come from the mentally unbalanced. (The paintings come from such old hands at modernism as Stuart Davis, Fernand Leger, Karl Zerbe and Salvador Dali...