Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...beginning to hear about Paul Douglas. Along with an unknown "caseless" Chicago lawyer named Harold Ickes, he launched the first protest campaign against the shabby stock manipulations of Utilitycoon Samuel Insull. Governor Franklin Roosevelt borrowed Douglas to work on New York State unemployment problems; so did Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot. Douglas drafted old-age pension and unemployment-insurance laws for Illinois, worked out the state utilities regulation act. He was a chairman of the board of arbiters for the newspaper industry, made such even-handed rulings that only two of his 40 decisions were ever challenged. He appeared...
Radcliffe Dean Sherman has implied that the Annex would approve the extension of joint instruction. She doubted that Radcliffe would object if the governing boards passed the new measure. A protest from the Annex Administrative Council would be unlikely, she said...
Radcliffe Dean Sherman indicated that the Annex will welcome the new move. "Probably Radcliffe will not interpose any objection to further merging of courses if the governing board deems it necessary," she said. "I don't think there will be any protest from the Radcliffe Administrative Council," she added...
...China has been mightily angry with Prime Minister Nehru's India. For months the Peking radio and press have assaulted the New Delhi government as an agent of "reactionary imperialists." Last week the propaganda insults touched an arrogant high. The Chinese Communist Youth Federation wired a "protest" to Nehru over sentences meted out to left-wing terrorists in Hyderabad (including 30 death penalties). The telegram sputtered with "deep indignation over . . . this Fascist atrocity," demanded immediate "canceling of these sentences...
...explain that, either," says Crothers. "Maybe it's because the program reaches the West Coast at 9 in the morning." One California station manager, after listening with a puzzled frown to Invitation, replaced it with a local show. He received only 37 letters of protest, but was so impressed by the names of the writers' - educators, judges, doctors and other leading citizens - that he quickly put Invitation back...