Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Butler charged that President Eisenhower, as General Eisenhower, had condoned segregated forces "without lifting a finger or raising his voice to protest this inequality." Scott had a last word for the delegates: "Could you have eaten in Washington restaurants under a Democratic Administration? Could you have even gathered in this fine hotel?" Scott asked sardonically: "When is Mr. Butler's appointment with Senator Eastland?" When Butler got up to reply, the delegates took up a mocking chant: "Eastland, Eastland, Eastland...
...waited for Makarios at Nicosia airport radioed the news of the arrest to Greece. In Athens Premier Constantine Karamanlis called together a government council, which decided to recall Greece's Ambassador to Britain and in structed Greece's permanent representative to the U.N. to register a protest with the U.N. As the news traveled through
Politics of Protest. The power of Pierre Poujade has grown monstrous in the short two months since he parlayed a taxpayers' strike into 2,600,000 votes and 53 Deputies sworn to do his bidding. Then, a senior politician dismissed him as "an episode." Last week, getting stronger all the time, Poujade boasted: "New elections-next month, next week, tomorrow-would give me five to six million votes, and perhaps 200 Deputies...
...similar situation in Pittsburgh three weeks earlier, Evers had called for the ball, touched second base and claimed a forced out. Umpire Hank O'Day had overruled him, and the league president had not allowed the Cubs' protest. Undaunted, Evers tried again at the Polo Grounds. Fans were already swarming across the infield, but somehow, in the confusion, canny Johnny Evers got his hands on the ball (or a ball) and pushed his way to second. Standing on the bag, he called to the head umpire-the same Hank O'Day. This time O'Day surprisingly...
...member of the Students for Eisenhower, I am writing to protest the actions of Mr. John Thomson and his colleagues concerning this organization. At the meeting of the Eisenhower group on March 8, Thomson and many of the Young Republican executives demonstrated behavior that is a disgrace to Republicanism and fair play at Harvard. Thomson and his friends succeeded in forcing an election of officers on the club at this meeting without previous announcement, and then railroaded a slate of officers, all of them influential Young Republicans, into office in what obviously were rigged elections...