Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--House passage of the 3,750,000,000 British loan was imperiled today when a group of liberal Democrats bolted the administration's ranks in protest against Britain's colonial and economic policies...
After the last war, in the absence of price controls of any kind, a voluntary buyers' strike was staged by the American people in protest against the soaring prices of the early twenties. That strike was won, the inflationary spree was halted and prices levelled off. It could be won again. Last week, a group of school children in a Middle Western town conducted a strike against the corner drugstore because the druggist had upped "cokes" from a nickel to a dime. After three days, the druggist capitulated and the price reverted to a nickel...
Candidate De Lacey scored first, when Jimmy Roosevelt announced that the Independent Citizens Committee for the Arts, Sciences and Professions was swinging in behind him.* Candidate Costigan immediately dashed off a letter of protest, sent a copy to his good friend Anna Roosevelt Boettiger (who has lived in Seattle off-&-on since 1936, when her husband John began an eight-and-a-half-year term as publisher of Hearst's Post-Intelligencer). Costigan roundly denounced De Lacey as a faithful Communist-line follower who "values the welfare of one nation-other than the United States-above all others...
...crisis of world food shortages remained. To war-wearied Britons it was brought home last week by something war had never brought-bread rationing. For the bountiful U.S.-where last week farmers at Plymouth, Ohio, poured some 2,000 gallons of milk on the ground in protest against OPA pricing-there was merely the next goal: 6,700,000 tons of grains to be exported in the coming crop year...
...Rumania, Premier Peter Groza postponed elections until fall (by then he hopes to have liquidated the opposition). Despite vigorous U.S. protest, Reuben H. Markham, the Christian Science Monitor's veteran Balkan correspondent, was expelled last week for "misrepresenting the situation in Rumania and spreading provocative rumors prejudicial to the cause of unity among the great powers." Markham reluctantly crossed into Greece, retaliated by bitterly telling of concentration camps, political murders, meetings broken up by Red Army troops and Communists. Said he: "The worst that any tyrant ever did in the way of violence . . . is now being matched...