Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When eleven-year-old Johnny Katz heard the news, he stomped upstairs, took out his typewriter and batted out a protest to Washington...
Then he mailed the letter and sat back to await developments. Like many such diplomatic protests, his was met with soft evasions. A White House aide announced cagily that the President was taking the protest under personal advisement. Meanwhile, private negotiations were launched in Paris, and an honorable compromise was announced. Johnny's letter had been a "wonderful cathartic," said Mrs. Katz. Then, without going into details, she added : "Johnny's perfectly reconciled to staying...
This week Dean Acheson received a joint protest from 14 Latin American envoys, assured them that the U.S. was still their good neighbor. Senator Gillette's forthright recommendations seemed likely to be modified or shelved. As long as coffee sold in U.S. stores around 77? a lb., the latinos would continue to enjoy what one cynical ambassador had called "a Marshall Plan...
...incident began when students at the American Independence High School and St. Augustine's University walked out in protest against a sudden junta decision barring General Ernesto Montagne, the sole opposition candidate against Odría (TIME, June 12), from the July 2 presidential election. Police cracked down; in ensuing skirmishes two youths were shot. Then civilian rebels led by Montagne's vice-presidential candidate, Dr. Francisco Mostajo, came out shooting from behind street barricades of paving stones. They seized the city hall, airport, police barracks and radio station. The rebels broadcast: "Dr. Mostajo has been named president...
Serving without pay, Alumnus Ashby, a former National Broadcasting Co. vice president, started in by firing four teachers. In the next few hectic months twelve others (including Economist Tucker Smith, 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President of the U.S.) quit in protest, and 110 out of 297 students left the campus. But after the first flurry, Olivet began to settle back to normalcy...