Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bench of Hungarian Bishops independently of the Vatican (TIME, Sept. 11), in the hope of relieving growing Communist pressure on the church. Said the bishops in a pastoral letter read in Budapest churches last Sunday: "We were deeply afflicted, and nothing was left to us but to protest...
...went up all the way. First the Corsairs were shot from the catapults, then the big, rumbling Skyraider dive bombers; and after the propeller-driven craft were well away, the jets were brought forward. Started by motors hustled about the deck by tiny yellow jeeps, the Grumman Panthers shrieked protest, then raised their voices to a horrible, thundering howl as they shot from the catapults...
Bandleader-Composer Duke (Don't Get Around Much Any More) Ellington, 51, wired Manhattan's Daily Worker to protest the inclusion of his name in a list of "76 outstanding Negro leaders . . . spokesmen for millions . . . who signed the World Peace Appeal." Huffed the Duke: "I'm no spokesman for millions," and what's more, "I threw the guy out when he asked me to sign...
Long & Short. Out of these techniques have come such shows as Ben Park's Saturday Square, and Hawkins Falls, based on nearby Woodstock, Ill.; Ted Mills's Portrait of America and Crisis; Charlie Andrews' Studs' Place, which drew 4,000 letters of protest (mostly from New York and Philadelphia) when it was dropped last month, and the Ransom Sherman Show, dedicated to the incurable inefficiency of the American male...
...sense of Congress was that the nation had to take the lesser gamble in order to keep its economy from being convulsed. But in its present mood, Congress was prepared to vote the whole $44 billion with scarcely an important voice raised in protest. Before the week was out, the House, by 311 to 1,* had voted Mahon's extra $16.7 billion. The $10 billion would come next...