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...leading radio manufacturers has just issued an appeal through the newspapers urging the public to protest against the plan to prohibit broadcasting of professional boxing matches and baseball games, which is being seriously considered by the magnates of these sports. Apart from the loss of enjoyment to thousands of people who could not possibly attend the games in person, such a course reveals an uneasiness in the minds of the promoters that seems strangely inconsistent with the reports of clamorous demands for seats at the coming World's Series and of a very gratifying gate at a fight between contenders...
...been awarded the Pulitzer Prize by a distinguished jury, and as it has been universally acclaimed as a play of literary and dramatic significance, we, the undersigned, believe that it is of cultural importance, and that we should not be denied the opportunity of seeing it. Therefore we protest against the banning of "Strange Interlude" in Boston, and we unreservedly endorse its production in Quincy...
...Eaton, who addresses the Liberal Club tonight at 66 Winthrop Street is one of the organizers of the Citizen's Committee of Protest in the recent controversy over Mayor Nichols' ban on the Theatre Guild's production of "Strange Interlude" by Eugene O'Neill '15. He is a well-known New York dramatic critic and author...
...ground, the Doukhobors wear heavy clothes. When a cold wind sweeps down from Alaska they often stalk about stark naked. They live on a communistic plan, denounce capital and marriage laws, are called "Dukes" and "Duchesses," eat no meat, drink no wine, touch no tobacco. Their prime weapon of protest is going naked. Their name means "Spirit Fighters...
...unrest at Nelson began when one Peter Wolosov, leader of an inner fanatical sect, "The Sons of Freedom," was imprisoned for burning schoolhouses. Comrades rallied in naked protest shouting "Jesus would not carry...