Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against the pressures of shrinking, pre-Korea defense budgets. Symington kept insisting that the U.S. needed 70 air groups for minimum safety, but he saw the Air Force dwindle to 50-odd. Early in 1950, when the new budget trimmed the Air Force to 48 groups, Symington resigned in protest...
Something for Nothing. To New Delhi's notes of protest, Red China filed counterblasts charging India itself with "provocations" and "border violations," asserting: "Frontier guards of the Chinese People's Liberation Army have all along been stationed in this entire area." Otherwise, asked Peking righteously, "How is it thinkable that China could have built a highway through this region?" The fact that the Chinese suffered few casualties in the latest skirmishes, said Peking, "exactly proves that the Chinese side was on the defensive. Anybody with a little knowledge of military affairs knows that...
...support of this protest, the Faculty approved the resolution which the Faculty of Arts and Sciences passed on Tuesday. Prepared originally by the Committee on Education, Policy and also supported by the Faculty of the Graduate School of Education, this resolution urges the Corporation not to use NDEA Title II loan funds until the disclaimer affidavit requirement is removed (and significantly does not mention the relatively inoffensive "loyalty oath...
According to Carle T. Tucker, Director of the Dining Hall Department, officials began to become concerned with the large increase in College use of Harkness after an incident last week during which an undergraduate "overturned a relish dish"--apparently in protest against the rule of no second helpings...
...Molly Maguire was a fierce-tempered Irish widow and patriot who in the 18403 organized gangs in Ireland to oppose the British overlords, beating and murdering landlords and their agents in protest against oppressive rents...