Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Movie theater owners immediately set up a howl of protest, but Hollywood, though usually thrown into a tizzy by any governmental move, remained surprisingly calm. Viewing the Justice Department action as more foolish than threatening, moviemen pointed out that the case might drag on through the courts for as long as ten years-long enough for Hollywood and TV to come to an understanding of their own. And, even if the Government should win, moviemen felt that their position was impregnable. Said an M-G-M spokesman: "Suppose the Government ordered you to sell Mutiny on the Bounty...
...Council for welshing on its obligations. Premier Antoine Pinay fumed Gallicly because his budget, which he had promised to balance without increasing taxes, had been worked out on the assumption that the U.S. would fork over. Pinay sent French Ambassador Henri Bonnet to the State Department with an indignant protest. Said Bonnet afterwards: "The two governments did not see the question with the same...
...down ammunition plants, airplane assembly lines and parts plants, will suffer a delay in schedules for at least one year. ¶ Some 1,500,000 men were thrown out of work; steelworkers lost $277 million in wages, or about $583 per man. ¶ Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson resigned in protest against Truman's policies. ¶ Congress stripped the Wage Stabilization Board of the powers WSB used in the steel case...
Ambassador Kennan wrote an angry protest, adding some stiff comments about Russia's current Hate America propaganda campaign, and fired it off to the Soviet Foreign Ministry. Later the same day, a Soviet messenger appeared...
...Missing from the parade: Red China, admitted at the last minute, and Nationalist China, which withdrew in protest. One late scratch: Syria...