Word: protesting
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...next instance which sent college administrators running to the State House to protest a bill sponsored in 1947 by Republican Representatives Peter Lobel of Boston and Peter J. Jordan of Revere to take away the tax exemption of any college whose out of state enrollment should exceed 35 percent...
...Monroe E. Deutsch, vice president and provost emeritus, has said: "As Governor Warren and others have pointed out, the oath would at once be taken by Communists without a word of protest. It is argued then, when their membership in the party is disclosed, they can be dismissed for perjury. It is, however, my understanding that the Regents would in any event, without further ado, dismiss any known Communist. What then is the need or value of the oath...
...faculty on the same poll and by an almost similar vote had rejected the Regents special non-Communist oath. Opposition continued to grow against the Regents "sign--or else" ultimatum. Even the student body assembled in the Greek amphitheater on the Berkeley campus for a mass protest meeting...
Lorch's twin dismissals have brought considerable protest from several groups, among them a group of Penn State teachers which formally organized on May 2 to "work for the re-appointment of Dr. Lorch." Lorch says his second dismissal has set off a considerable amount of comment in the Negro press. "I seem to be regarded as a white victim of jimcrowism...
...Just a Stepfather." Popularly known as the Aglipayans (rhymes with lions), the Philippine Independents began as a protest against the Roman Catholic Church's 19th Century policy of limiting most native Philippine priests to posts as parish assistants. There had been agitation against the abuses of the Spanish friars since 1860, but it was not until 1902, after a delegation to Madrid got a cold shoulder from the Papal Nuncio, that a group of Socialist-minded Philippine Catholics decided that the Pope was no longer their spiritual "father, but just a stepfather." A revolutionary, excommunicated priest named Gregorio Aglipay...