Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Then came war. The Viceroy announced that Indians would gladly fight-without having first consulted the Indians. In protest eight of eleven Congress Party Cabinets resigned, among them the one which had devised Bombay's prohibition law. With prohibitionists out of power, a British High Court last week pleaded complicated legal technicalities and effectively nullified prohibition outright...
...spectacles . . . capable of evil," that States might censor them at will. Not only States but pressure groups of all kinds have censored movies ever since. No group has pressed harder than the Roman Catholic Church. Its U. S. hierarchy sponsors the potent Catholic Legion of Decency "as a permanent protest against everything in the moving pictures which is subversive of morality...
This India of ours is being dragooned into war against the will of the vast majority of her citizens. Failure to protest against this coercion would brand us as false prophets." This manifesto obviously broke the four missionaries' pledges. Mindful of their church's stake, India's U. S. Methodist bishops straightway got their Board of Foreign Missions in Manhattan to authorize the homecoming of Missionaries < Smith and Keene-who obediently went home...
...should not, of course, regard a news story in the Crimson as a matter for any comment, regardless of its content. The exception to this rule, however, seems to me to be created by your article, which has attracted the interest of the outside press. I therefore beg to protest against what seems to be a totally irresponsible piece of journalism which violates not only the canons of good taste but the sound rule that unfounded rumors should not be used "to make news...
...strength of Editor Morrison's language was significant. It seemed more likely than ever last week that such potent U. S. denominations as the Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans and Presbyterians would soon make official protest...