Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House swimming championship is still undecided. Adams' protest over Kirkland's 25 to 23 victory last Tuesday had been upheld, thus forcing a new meet...
Kirkland won the House swimming crown by defeating Adams yesterday afternoon, 25 to 23. Adams protested the meet when Kirkland delayed the start of the 100-yard freestyle in order to allow Hamel time to appear for the race. Hamel had an hour exam but arrived just as the race was about to begin. He won easily, but Adams representatives felt that Kirkland's delaying tactics were illegal and field a protest...
Barcelona, an explosively spirited city, one morning this week broke out in what may be the most serious defiance of the Franco regime.* Workers and white-collar employees reported to factories, shops and offices, punched their time clocks, then quietly walked out in protest against ruinously rising living costs. The strike, which spread to nearly all businesses in the city except the gas, electricity and water works, did not stay quiet. Workers broke windows of the Ritz Hotel and the city hall, set fire to curtains; when fire engines rattled to the scene, crowds would not let them pass. Angry...
...Attack. Last month the Barcelona streetcar company announced a 40% fare rise from 50 to 70 centimes. Students and workers were furious. As D-day for the fare rise (March i) approached, protest posters appeared on walls, chain letters floated through the mails: "Be a good citizen, show your courage. Starting March i, hoof it to work." Kids chanted in the streets: "If you want your morning jolly, stay away from the trolley...
Britain's Lord Craigavon, who recently led more than 1,500 people to Canterbury Cathedral on a pilgrimage of prayer against Communism, signed one of the stiffest protest petitions yet leveled against Dr. Hewlett ("The Red Dean") Johnson. Said the letter: "As loyal Christians, we do believe that it is impossible to serve two masters, and so we must ask you now to dissociate yourself from Communism or else to resign from the office of Dean of Canterbury . . ." Dr. Johnson had "no comment...