Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused to give his age. He refused to talk about his income. Greasy Thumb clammed up. Once, peering over his shoulder at the throngs who were eying him, he muttered in protest: "For Christ sake!" Would he talk about anything at all? He wouldn't answer that, either. "It may incriminate me." Where did he get this phrase about incrimination he was using all the time? Said Greasy Thumb with dignity: "I heard it on the television...
...Under protest, La Prensa's representatives signed papers delivering the world-famed newspaper to the government (see PRESS). The congressional committee closed the books, impounded 800,000 pesos cash in the safe and ordered police to seal all doors save one. That night for the first time in the paper's 81-year history, the permanent light atop La Prensa's building-intended to symbolize reason and truth...
...first accused his countrymen of worshiping the almighty dollar, and Henry James who invented the ivory tower). In 1893 a Lafayette professor named F. A. March suggested that an execution in the newly invented electric chair be called electricute. A reporter misspelled it, and though scholars howled in protest, the word became electrocute for good...
Died. The Rev. James R. Cox, 65, Pittsburgh's Roman Catholic "pastor of the poor," who set up a soup kitchen and a tar-papered "Shantytown" for depression victims, led some 10,000 of them (in 1,000 cars and trucks) in a protest march on Washington in January 1932; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Pittsburgh. On the arrival of "Cox's Army"* in Washington, Father Cox had a 20-minute chat with President Hoover (who gave "intense sympathy"), went on to form his short-lived Jobless Party, was briefly its candidate for President, gave up to support...
Stone's action in placing the confessed offender on probation despite a Westboro State Hospital recommendation that he be turned over to the State Department for Mental Deficients had raised considerable protest...