Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last July they were sure of it. Judge Waring ordered the Democratic Party to open its enrollment books to Negroes and permit them "full participation in party affairs." He went even further. When a white man, Senatorial Candidate Alan Johnstone, rose to protest, the judge had him forcibly ejected. He told the crowd of Negroes who jammed his courtroom: "It is a disgrace when you have to come . . . and ask a judge to tell you how to be an American...
...protest was hardly necessary. The White House was aware of the report's explosive political contents. It had temporarily withdrawn the report after issuing it a fortnight ago. Last week Defense Secretary Forrestal dryly pointed out that the report was not "a pattern for legislative action . . . and does not, at this stage, constitute military establishment policy...
...sure touch, and at least one had an odd consequence. Though the President could hardly be blamed for Senate failure to push through the anti-poll tax bill,* 2,000 Progressive Party members, led by Communist-line Singer Paul Robeson, picketed the White House last week in a protest demonstration...
Actor Rex ("Sexy Rexy") Harrison went to court to get a reduction in the $24,000-a-year alimony he was paying next-to-latest wife Noel; but Noel appealed, with a protest of her own: he was $28,000 behind in payments...
...Wallace be? He could openly and honestly withdraw his candidacy, as predicted by the New York Times's Arthur Krock. But he has not been a man distinguished for moral courage. In 1934, when his Agriculture Department was purged of a group of leftists, he made a brief protest and then sat silently by. Some of the victims were his close associates.When he made charges unsubstantiated by fact against the atomic-energy policy of Bernard Baruch, he first promised Baruch a retraction, then vanished ignominiously. In crises he is apt to be simply in absentia. If his hodgepodge party...