Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conservatives hoped to split the Labor majority at a vulnerable point: where the government's pacifist wing flutters in protest against the government's strong rearmament program. But Churchill did not touch the vital issue. His resolution was not against rearmament, but for a more efficient rearmament. As he spoke for his motion, the Tory leader plainly showed the weakness of his argument. He taunted the Laborites for a gingerly approach, lamely charged that Prime Minister Clement Attlee had failed to produce atomic bombs in Britain...
Three Negro students of Queens College (of the College of the City of New York) called on the chairman of the history department, one day last fall, to lodge a protest. A textbook used in the basic U.S. history course, they said, was offensive to their race. The book: Volume I of The Growth of the American Republic, by two of the nation's top historians, Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison and Columbia's Henry Steele Commager...
...Children. Close friends in both Washington and Independence, Mo. have a way of referring to Margaret's sudden eminence as "this thing"-much as though it were a crippling disease of childhood or a family scandal best left unmentioned. Perhaps they protest too much that everything is just the same as it was before the Truman family was translated...
...Protest. Labor also got its feelings hurt last week in the grinding of mobilization gears. For weeks, big labor leaders had been pressing the President and Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson to place a big labor man up there among all the big businessmen in the mobilization high command. They got no satisfaction. Then they discovered that Wilson was fixing to take control of mobilization manpower away from labor's friend, Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin...
...interest your reprint from The Dartmouth and accompanying editorial. However, I must take issue with your feeble reply. While it is useless to attempt to "blame" anyone for this current trend in American thinking, the colleges certainly bring no credit on themselves by submitting to the trend without a protest. As Professor Handlin pointed out in his Atlantic Monthly article, the youth of this country has formed the core of every progressive movement, and it is a discouraging symptom when we submit so readily to the complacency of our elders. A few voices in protest--though they have no immediate...