Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purest coincidence the Forrestal paid her call the same day Lebanon's Parliament voted 30 to i in support of the government's decision to accept Eisenhower-plan aid. (Just before the vote five deputies resigned their seats in protest.) The carrier's first presence in an Arab port was directly relevant to the tortured processes of side-choosing going on in two neighboring Arab lands...
Weary and footsore, the Negro workers of Johannesburg climbed aboard the buses to ride to their jobs for the first time in twelve weeks. Their boycott had been a muted and melancholy protest against a one penny rise in fare (TIME. Feb. 25). Their inadequate diet made it hard for them to walk the 20 miles a day and also work a full shift; their low incomes left many without proper shoes or raincoats for the long trudge, yet 145,000 Negroes had honored the boycott in a demonstration of unity such as South Africa had never seen before...
...actions served only to confirm and strengthen my faith in and my admiration for him. The combined effect of overwork, overstrain, and the feeling of renewed persecution on a sensitive mind and a not very robust body produced a nervous collapse." But Pearson refused to send a new official protest to Washington: "There is no point in making an international issue of this...
...that fair minded people conected with Harvard, whatever their politics, will agree that there is nothing in Dr. Oppenheimer's public record which should bar him from any honor or any appointment which Harvard can confer. I am therefore more concerned lest there be such a reaction to this protest that whatever Dr. Oppenheimer will say in his lectures will be drowned in a tide of sympathy.... Sanford A. Lakoff
...source close to Singleton said yesterday that his resignation was "a kind of protest against infringement on individual departments by the Administration." Although Singleton would give no reason for his resignation, it is understood from members of the Department that he was upset by a recent appointment which the Administration exerted pressure on the Department to accept...