Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guards are the nation's most important reservoir of military manpower. It is the force the nation would depend on for second-line defense in case of an all-out war. Charlie Wilson's statement branding the National Guard as a "draft-dodging business" and the subsequent roar of protest have oversimplified the problem of reorganizing the Guard and intergrating it into the nation's defense system...
...elections (TIME, Jan. 16, 1956), Poujade had gone nowhere but down. He had blustered about a march on Paris with 500,000 back-country adherents, but nothing happened. In the Assembly, his champions of tax reforms had made themselves a laughingstock. The only time they spoke up was to protest the unfairness of a tax rate per occupant instead of per night for houses of assignation (called "hôtels de vingt minutes...
...growing economic distress. They pointed out that the rioters arrived in well-organized squads, equipped with crowbars and iron claws to pry open steel shop shutters, and that the government did not stop the riot until around midnight, when it had shown signs of becoming a general protest against the regime. Menderes suspended five newspapers for charging the government with failure to stop the pillage. Secret military courts were set up to try the arrested rioters. Last week came news that the First Chamber of Criminal Court had freed 23 persons charged with responsibility for the riots for "lack...
...world is saved for black lace undies. This version, however, might more accurately have been titled Ninotmuchka. Katharine Hepburn, doing her smooth-cheeked, trim-legged best to look like a Soviet with sex appeal, plays a MIG-wig in the Red air force who flies to the West in protest over a missed promotion. Bob Hope, a major in the U.S. Air Force, is assigned the "sensitive" task of inducing her to "embrace democracy." After that, the script-mostly by Ben Hecht, though he has wisely refused to acknowledge it (TIME, Oct. 15)-degenerates noisily into a lot of Hechtic...
There must now be a 30 day waiting period during which anyone who wishes to contest the application may do so. Andrew said, however, that to the best of his knowledge no one would either "contest or protest" the petition...