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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...featured Larry Adler, the mouth organist, and Paul Draper, the lissome dancer, and she had read enough about them to conclude that both had been busy supporters of various Communist fronts. Hester McCullough went to the telephone and called several board members of the Greenwich Community Concert Association to protest the idea of presenting artists who mixed their art with politics. Most of the members pooh-poohed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Concert In Greenwich | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Election day passed in relative calm. Fumbling Liberals, who had already withdrawn their presidential candidate, Dario Echandia, in protest at government indifference to violence (TIME, Nov. 14), called for a three-day general strike. Though some railroads were affected in the provinces, the main results of the strike in Bogota were a shortage of taxicabs and the nonappearance of the Liberal newspapers. Electricity, telephone and water service continued under guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Blood & Ballots | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Soon Howard's men had six articles ready to go. When the State Department sent what Howard thought was a "mealymouthed" protest to Red China's Mao Tse-tung, Howard let fly with his first salvo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Public Opinion at Work | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...State Department was also obliged to deliver a formal protest to the other side in China's war. A U.S. freighter, the Flying Cloud, had been shot at by a destroyer escort while running the Nationalist blockade off the China coast. The protest was bound to be mild, since the department does not acknowledge the blockade but looks upon it benignly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Outrage | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

What Lawyer Heyman Zimel of Paterson, N.J. wanted, to make a foolproof test case, were protests from 1) the parent of a schoolchild, and 2) a New Jersey taxpayer. Mrs. Henry O. Klein, ex-Roman Catholic and longtime Secularist, filled the bill for the parent: her 17-year-old daughter Gloria was a student at the Hawthorne High School. Donald R. Doremus, a mechanic of East Rutherford and director of the Secularists of New Jersey, was glad to protest as a taxpayer. With Lawyer Zimel, they filed their case before Superior Court Judge Robert H. Davidson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Secularists at Work | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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