Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dissenters, Justices Black and Douglas, commented bitterly in separate opinions. Said Black: "Public opinion being what it now is, few will protest the conviction of these Communist petitioners. There is hope, however, that in calmer times . . . this or some later court will restore the first-amendment liberties to the high, preferred place where they belong in a free society . . . No matter how it is worded, this is a virulent form of prior censorship of speech and press...
...past two years, the radio-equipped buses and streetcars of Washington's Capital Transit Co. have resounded with syrupy popular music and insistent commercials. Some of the defenseless passengers objected strongly enough to protest to the Public Utilities Commission. Defeated there, they went to court. Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia agreed unanimously with the protesting passengers, ruled that they have a constitutional right not to listen while they ride...
This morning I am remonstrating in protest against a stupid Harvard tradition of requiring the resignation of an officer of instruction of administration when he has reached the age of 66 years above, or thereabouts--regardless of his (or her) physical and mental condition...
Nehru's proposal to gag the press aroused a storm of protest all over India. At week's end, stepping cautiously, Nehru referred his bill to a select parliamentary committee for action...
...dissidents were no fiery-eyed hotheads, but the most conservative, high-church wing of the Anglican Church-the Anglo-Catholics. Increasingly disturbed over what they consider a dangerous drift toward collaboration with the sectarian "free churches" (Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, etc.), they have been quietly protesting for years at such unity symptoms as the proposed Chapel of Unity in the plans for rebuilding Coventry Cathedral. Last week's service was something more than the customary soft-voiced protest...