Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire and earth. The people liked this squarejawed, plain-speaking American. If he wanted to be one of them, why, no bloke in any bloomin' office up in London had a right to interfere. Three hundred petitions ("We, the undersigned constituents of the Potteries towns . . . record our protest . . .") circulated throughout the Five Towns, bore 10,000 signatures by last week...
...only man who could have stopped Gandhi was brilliant, unstable Jawaharlal Nehru, but he went off on a small and dizzy tangent to his native Kashmir, where the local maharaja, Sir Hari Singh, had arrested a popular leader, the sheik Mohamed Abdullah. Sir Hari had Nehru arrested. In protest, thousands of Bombay mill workers and Calcutta transport workers went on strike. Markets closed in many cities, and in Madura five Indians were killed in riots...
...crimes trial has been hard on Hermann Goring's waistline (he is down 80 Ibs. to 190), he is not the only one. In Nürnberg last week the new, free German press emitted a rumbling protest that came from the stomach: its reporters covering the trials were not getting enough to eat. Result: the coverage of the trial had dropped from 15 to three German reporters (Allied newsmen, well-fed, were still at full strength). Exhibit A was German newsman Johann Hammer, who had lost 17 pounds in the past five weeks...
With the increased responsibility of power, according to Professor Selekman, "the mature labor leader confronts one essential test for every policy he frames: does it enable him to meet simultaneously the requirements both of the dynamic protest movement for which he speaks and of the stable, complex administration which he must serve...
Died. Gerhart Hauptmann, 83, world-famed, Nobel Prizewinning German poet-dramatist; in Agnetendorf, in now-Polish Silesia. A lone light in Germany's end-of-the-century literary darkness, he passed from his era's realism and social protest (The Weavers) to a new era's symbolistic fantasy (The Sunken Bell); in his old age was seized upon as a symbol of German culture by both the Nazis and their Soviet conquerors...