Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Western Germany's other political parties have claimed for years that the interests of the 9,200,000 refugees in Western Germany were "adequately protected" by them. Refugees thought differently. In crowded Schleswig-Holstein, where refugees constitute nearly 40% of the population, they finally organized to protest against their status as "second-class citizens." The entrance of organized refugees from the East into German politics had long been feared. Now it had arrived, and it promised to become one of the most disturbing factors in West German politics...
Fortnight ago, the Soviet government sent a formal protest to Washington. U.S. flyers, said the note, were dropping Colorado beetles on East German potato fields. The Estonian republic set up a people's democratic bug watch to crush the six-legged tools of Wall Street. Czechoslovakia's Red regime piped up, six days later, and said that someone had been sprinkling potato bugs on Czech fields...
...according to British Author John Langdon-Davies, the proletariat of Barcelona took to promenading hatless and tieless along the fashionable Rambla. In a ringing editorial, the syndicalist paper, Worker Solidarity, hailed this gesture of defiance of bourgeois convention. Then Worker Solidarity was faced with a storm of protest from the hat and necktie workers' unions. The paper abruptly reversed itself, came out for hats and ties on the Rambla...
...eight months, 15 Corcoran staff members had scoured the U.S., made expeditions to Canada, Mexico and Europe to round up paintings, prints and Americana. In Paris they uncovered a 1775 mezzotint of A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton, N.C. emptying their tea caddies in protest against George III's unwelcome taxes. From Canada's National Gallery came Benjamin West's enormous, detailed...
...Manhattan last week, Ring Jr. was on hand to represent the Hollywood Ten at a mass meeting scheduled by the Communist-run Civil Rights Congress to protest the treatment of "political prisoners" (including the eleven Communist leaders). Then the Korean war started. With the flick of a handbill, the Civil Rights Congress switched the meeting to a "Hands Off Korea" rally. Nobody seemed to mind...