Word: protested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Student Groups Protest...
...March 8, 1949, the Young Progressives staged a demonstration in protest of the city's decision to revoke a permission for a speech by O. John Rogge, former U. S. Assistant Attorney-General, in a high-school auditorium...
During the protest rally, which took place on a street corner, a student named Irving Feiner addressed the crowd for around ten minutes. He was then arrested on the charge of "disorderly conduct...
...Y.P.A. organized a rally, attended by 1,000 students, to protest the university's decision. Feiner himself addressed the crowd, and remarked, "I'll be around Syracuse for a long, long time." But Syracuse's Chancellor, William P. Tolley, stated, "The university will not modify its decision...
Secretary of the Navy Sullivan promptly quit in protest; Chief of Naval Operations Denfield was kicked into a fleet command when he complained. The new Secretary of the Navy was chosen from a civilian job in which "he never got any closer to the Navy than a row-boat." And there was a wave of mutterings in Congress about the "high-handedness" of Secretary Johnson's move. The forthcoming test is a result of this Congressional pressure...