Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 1944, I found myself gently eased out of Russia when the Soviets withdrew my press credentials after an argument with one of their more abusive censors. . . . Our own State Department, to whom the event had been fully reported, uttered not a squeak of protest...
Pappy promptly entered a righteous protest: "She hypnotized me." Then he instructed his lawyer to inform Mrs. Malcomson's lawyer that there would be no wedding. Hurriedly he bundled Frances off Las Vegas, got married before a justice of peace...
Forthright, 49-year-old Ellis Smith is a deep-dyed socialist. He is also a firm friend of the potters who sent him to Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent (he once publicly protested to the War Office because his plate at an Army dinner was marked "foreign manufacture"). Last week crockery and conviction caused Socialist Smith to quit his job as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade-in protest against his fellow-socialist, Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps...
...Britain, exiled King Zog I (full title: Bird the First, King of the Sons of the Eagle) received the news with hardly a quiver of his finely pointed mustache, issued a routine protest: "The King cannot consider these elections [establishing the new regime] as free. It would have been our desire, after this long and tragic period, that the people of the country should be free to re-establish the situation as they wanted...
Most business houses shut down in a three-day protest against Perón's 30% wage-increase decrees. They promised to pay their staffs; meantime, had already paid the government-dictated wage increases and bonuses. The real issue: dictatorial government...