Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must protest your Aug. 26 issue of TIME with Althea Gibson on the cover. We have enough trouble with these people without paying for a magazine which carries such news. You will ruin your magazine if you continue to run such articles. Don't do it again...
...attack on Stalinist tyranny. In June 1956. at a time when the rest of the world was yet only dimly aware of the courageous activities of dissident writers of Budapest's Petofi Club, Kantor gave them guarded support in the Communist Berliner Zeitun'g. After the Petofi protest became the Hungarian revolt, all Eastern Europe was buried under the snowdrifts of renewed cultural repression. Bleakly, Kantor declined to sign a petition ordered by Party Boss Walter Ulbricht condemning the role of the Petofi Club in touching off the Hungarian revolt. The trial last March of his fellow professor...
...amid a milieu of bums and bohemians, philanthropists, philosophers, progressives and an odd Communist diplomat. Both scurried to sign up for Communist-line outfits, e.g., American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. American Peace Mobilization, National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions. He led a Communist-backed protest march (on the train) from New York City to Albany (1947) to urge Govenor Dewey to freeze rent controls in New York. Both were heady for Wallace for President. 'Both broadened their contacts with Communists (she felt, it was suggested, that she had to seek and find discipline...
...schools than New Orleans' 80-year-old Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel (TIME. Oct. 24, 1955 et seq.), onetime pastor of a Roman Catholic parish in New York's Harlem. Last week some of his own segregation-minded flock went over his head to the Pope to protest against Rummel's "strange new doctrine." In a letter to Pius XII, the Association of Catholic Laymen of New Orleans asked the Pope to stop Rummel from taking "further steps" to integrate white and Negro Catholics and to decree that racial segregation is not "morally wrong and sinful." Concluded...
Some Catholic laymen urged the hierarchy to come out against Fethard's fethardism. Replied Galway's Bishop Michael Browne: "Non-Catholics do not protest against the crime of conspiring to steal the children of a Catholic father, but they try to make political capital when a Catholic people make a peaceful and moderate protest." Even the venerable Taoiseach Catholic, Eamon de Valera, leaped into the Donnybrook: fethardism, he declared, is "ill-conceived, ill-considered and futile...