Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pepper protest further served notice on the President that henceforth any Rooseveltian swings to the right would be fought loudly and bitterly by men who are normally his most loyal wish-followers in Congress. These include Pennsylvania's noisy Joe Guffey and Montana's wealthy, leftist James E. Murray. They also count on support from Utah's Elbert D. Thomas and Alabama's Lister Hill, as well as two freshman Senators-Warren Magnuson of Washington and Brien McMahon of Connecticut. Somewhere in the background was the ambitious C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Even further back...
Triumvir Rivera recently organized a give-the-kids-a-chance exhibit of young painters, in protest against the Government's Department of Fine Arts, which Rivera considers stifling. Triumvir Sequeiros proclaimed Rivera's show unnecessary and based on an idea that was "old and a failure." Sixty-one-year-old Triumvir Orozco, invited to exhibit with the youngsters, flatly refused. The atmosphere burned with reports, discussions, tempestades. Painter Maria Izquierdo pronounced all three leaders publicity hounds...
...over the issue of campus kissing. Tall, leonine President William Bass ("William the Conqueror") Hatcher had frowned on good-night kisses. Pretty Sophomore Gloria Jeanne Heller, 18, issued a rebellious manifesto. "We are meant and taught to be robots," she declared. She was promptly expelled. Fellow students vainly clamored protest. Remarked an alumnus, mindful also of L.S.U.'s slipping cultural standards: "It looks like the old school is headed for cow-college status...
...quislings attempted to thrust Norway's police, schools and courts into the Nazi mold, the voice of the Church was lifted again & again in protest. Then, shortly before Christmas 1940, the quisling Ministry of Police issued an order revoking the clergy's oath of silence. This oath, guaranteeing the Lutheran clergy's right to preserve their parishioners' confidences, as Catholic priests preserve the secrets of the confessional, was Norway's "Magna Carta" of conscience. The seven bishops of Norway prepared to act. In a letter addressed to Minister of Church and Education Ragnar Skancke, they...
...Jaramillo attacked President José Maria Velasco Ibarra, was promptly jailed for showing "disrespect." Just as promptly, the President came to the rescue. Wired President Velasco to Critic Jaramillo: "You have perfect freedom to think, criticize and censure. You have been the victim of an abuse of which I protest as the President of a liberal country...