Word: protested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia Groups Protest...
There was a strong reaction here, too. City College students held a noon protest rally on December 11, and the daily Campus attacked the action in an editorial...
Dever has offered two methods for reallocating the deficits but both have met loud protest from the groups who will have to pay. First, he wanted the State legislature to determine that the MTA lines and the subways were "highways" and, as such, were to be maintained by the receipts from gasoline and other automotive taxes. The car owners objected to this plan; they argued that persons who paid a gas tax were the least likely to use the MTA. And this program was disregarded entirely early this year, when the State Supreme Court ruled such action illegal...
Referring to the Student Action Committee pickets, Ashby remarked, "Ninety percent of the student picket line were of a certain race and from a certain section of the country." Six days later Ashby told a student protest meeting that he had not meant to deprecate any one race, and that he still believed in Olivet's traditional non-discriminatory policy. But when asked what race he had in mind in his statement, Ashby replied, "Draw your own conclusion...
...Olivet had only lost two of its teachers. On December 8, two faculty members resigned in protest, and on December 17, four were fired and another was given a one year terminal notice...