Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the Hungarians added their final gesture. Even before the U.S. could wind up to fire another note of protest, a military court in Budapest this week handed down its decision: the four airmen had been tried, found guilty, fined $30,000 each or three months in jail. Hungary's ransom ring, which had made a lucrative haul in goods for the release of Businessman Robert Vogeler, was down to a simpler racket-a barefaced pursuit of hard cash...
Century, King Christian IV put a lengthy stop to it with a heated protest to London, but early this century British fishing boats again edged into the shallow waters, which Norway claimed fell within her four-mile limit. When the Norwegian protests didn't work, they began seizing British trawlers and fining their masters...
...decision was sure to bring a protest from Russia & Co. against "unilateral treaty revision." In reply, the West would simply point to Russia's own little buildup of the armed forces of such ex-enemy nations as Hungary, Rumania and East Germany in defiance of treaties...
...month he riled some musicians in the case of the flying baton, which struck Concertmaster Alfred Bruening in the face, whether Halasz actually hurled it or let it slip (TIME, Dec. 10). And earlier last week, the American Guild of Musical Artists, headed by Lawrence Tibbett, had filed a protest with the board over Halasz' lofty treatment of his singers...
Bargaining Point. White with anger, Clement Attlee leaped to his feet in protest. "Be careful about this," he warned. "We agreed to the stationing of American bombers in this country . . . but never specifically as a base for using the atomic bomb against Russia." Churchill's retort: "That is the impression which, however mistakenly, they [the Americans] seem to have derived...