Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance, decided not to go-and royalist leaders whipped up riots in Rome, Naples, Palermo. Alarmed, De Gasperi hastened up the hill and told Umberto to leave at once. In a rage, the scion of Savoy scrapped a conciliatory message to the new republic, substituting a truculent protest. Then he donned a grey suit and porkpie hat, stole away to Ciampino airport and flew to join his family in Portugal. In a few days the Assembly would convene in Monte Citorio palace. As its members drafted a constitution for the new Italian republic, a tapestried legend on the wall would...
Last week, earnest Ed found the Byrnes stand-in one whirl too many. In a letter to the President, he announced his wish to retire from history, and declared (a trifle dizzily, perhaps) that the job of organizing the U.N. was completed. After a decent interval for surprise and protest, the President accepted his resignation, and began casting around for a successor. Unfortunately, good stand-ins were as scarce in Washington as stars...
First public product of the new and better spring term was what Boston papers termed a "Harvard Riot." The Liberal Union started it by announcing they would march in the Yard in protest against Winston Churchill's "alliance" speech; the Conservative League and others chimed in. Riot it wasn't, but turmoil it was, and of a sort not seen in Cambridge for years...
Last week he met defeat. Louisiana's Legislature promptly turned thumbs down on "Chet" Morrison's slot-machines measures, tabled them indefinitely by an overwhelming vote. His legalized-bookmaking measure also faced certain death. Most legislators were less concerned with the dust storm of protest raised by the women's groups and churchmen than with kicking the goose that laid golden eggs for sheriffs and machine politicians...
Hunger & History. Marguerite Stihl#233;'s addled protest was important. Thousands of Frenchmen were voting Communist to express discontent and opposition, even though the Communists are in the Government. Maurice Thorez knows well that hunger is his most effective fellow traveler. By focusing attention on France's economic ills he draws French attention away from the issues of dictatorship and Russian control...