Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...split in splinters. Cried Dr. Pope: "All Communists in this organization should resign." Then he pointed a finger: he demanded that Mrs. Brubaker get out for "insubordination." She refused, and Dr. Pope asked the steering committee to censure her. Instead, it dismissed Dr. Pope. Miss Holman resigned in protest, Mrs. Brubaker in the interests of harmony. Then other right-wingers among the left-wingers let it be known that they, too, were much too busy...
They did not know much about Balkan politics, but they were sure that Mihailovich was a right guy, and they said so in hundreds of protest letters. Last week some of them turned up at the New York County Lawyers' Association in Manhattan's Vesey Street to testify before the Committee for a Fair Trial for Mihailovich. Excerpts...
...friend showed O'Keeffe's drawings (without her permission) to Alfred Stieglitz, pioneer photographer and missionary of modern art. Said he: "Finally-a woman on paper." When he put her work on exhibition, O'Keeffe stormed into Stieglitz' gallery to protest, afraid that gallerygoers would find the drawings incomprehensible. Stieglitz asked gently whether she herself knew what her drawings meant. Huffed O'Keeffe: "Do you think I'm an idiot?" Eight years later they were married...
...year after the Kingfish was killed, the Carters sold out their Louisiana paper, moved to Greenville. As a kind of personal protest against Munich, Editor Carter enlisted in the National Guard. He lost the sight of his right eye in a training-camp exercise in Florida (he walked into a palmetto...
Before he got onto the actual paper, however, Cunningham had a few words with Walker. Brushing aside Walker's protest that he didn't mean to be so harsh on Bill and that he had been misquoted, Cunningham intoned, "That misquoting business is an old device people use when they wish they hadn't said something...