Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Without protest, hard-bitten photographers put down their cameras, as attendants gently lifted down a stretcher and loaded it into a waiting ambulance. On it, swathed to his neck in heavy G.I. blankets, lay Pfc. Robert L. Smith, a 20-year-old soldier from Middleburg, Pa., who had suffered as grievously as a man could and still live. He was the first quadruple amputee of the Korean war.* Both hands were amputated, one leg was amputated at the knee, the other slightly below...
...Stafford Cripps, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked British companies to hold down dividends to combat inflation. Since his order would cut sharply into Iran's royalties, Anglo-Iranian, looking for a justified protest from Teheran, quickly offered to revise the 1933 agreement. Razor-sharp Board Chairman Sir William Eraser, a grey, gaunt Scot who runs his own show, journeyed to Teheran, and a compromise was reached in July 1949. It provided for raising Iran's oil revenues sharply. For example, under the new terms, Iran's 1948 royalties would amount to ?18,700,000, compared...
...running feud with Columnist Drew Pearson, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy tried to hit Pearson where it hurt-in the pocketbook. In a speech on the floor of the Senate, he urged the U.S. public to protest to the 650 newspapers which carry Pearson's column and to boycott Adam Hat Stores, Inc., which sponsors Pearson's Sunday-night radio broadcast (estimated audience: 10 million). Last week Washington Columnist Doris Fleeson, an old friend of Pearson's, broke the news that McCarthy had won a round: Adam Hats had decided not to renew Pearson...
...than 700 civilians had already fallen before the guns of the R.O.K. troops. Others said the total was at least 800. Last week in Seoul, while U.S. and British troops voiced their loathing of the wholesale slaughter, three American clergymen-a Methodist and two Roman Catholics-made a formal protest...
...Michigan, 60 Methodist ministers dispatched a message to President Truman and Secretary of Defense Marshall: "Its previous use not having prevented the present crisis . . . and in consideration of the fact that the A-bomb is the extreme expression of violence completely contrary to Christian ethics, we ... register our protest against either the use or the threat of the use of the A-bomb...