Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the N.C.A.A. plan went into effect this fall, only 19 major games have been telecast across the nation, with one area going without a game each week. Last week it was Louisville's turn to be blacked out. Getting nowhere in his protest to the colleges, Kentucky's Governor Lawrence Wetherby telegraphed to Attorney General Howard McGrath, asking him to order removal of the N.C.A.A. ban. The Department of Justice replied that it considered such bans illegal, noted that it had filed suit last month against the professional National Football League for similar broadcasting restrictions...
John Dos Passos' massive, radical trilogy, U.S.A. (1930-36), sizzled with social protest, sent admiring critics scurry-ng to Balzac and Tolstoy for comparisons. Now a mellow 55, Dos Passos has put together a long, loose chronicle that parallels the history of many an intellectual of his own generation...
...undergraduates were against the move. But they did not protest out loud. For 50 years, since its dedication in 1900, it had been building a record and tradition as a meeting place for any students who wanted to use it and a service organization for Harvard, Cambridge, and Boston. PBH was sure that its work and reputation would fight for it with no outside help. PBH was right...
Meanwhile, the Daily Princetonian urged that a formal protest be sent to Dartmouth "expressing Princeton's general dissatisfaction with Saturday's foul playing...
...MacArthur was midway in his speech. Next morning, Fair Dealing Congressman Hugh Mitchell called MacArthur a "demagogue," and refused to show up for a MacArthur ceremony welcoming a shipload of veterans home from Korea. A Washington Democratic National committeeman and the Truman-appointed U.S. collector of customs resigned in protest from Greater Seattle, Inc., the nonpartisan civic group which invited MacArthur to inaugurate Seattle's centennial show...