Word: protestable
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...have learned that it is futile to protest against the Hemingway comparison; most every young author who pokes his head above the ground nowadays is beset by Hemingwayniac; armed with bayonets, banderillas and empty Vermouth bottles...
Immediately there blew up a storm of Democratic protest. ''He is practically ordering postmasters to devote their time to furthering the Administration in the next campaign, and I think such remarks will be generally condemned," declared Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee, one-time (1921-24) chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee...
...That went too. Ramsay MacDonald resigned as Laborite Prime Minister and headed a coalition cabinet. France and New York arranged $400,000,000 more credit and that was exhausted while Chancellor Snowden was making drastic efforts to balance the budget. Last week the British Atlantic Fleet mutinied in protest at their prospective wage cut (see p. 20) and next day London learned that Britain's gold reserves were down to ?59,742,000. Scot MacDonald rushed up to London and summoned the House of Lords (Commons were already sitting) to an emergency session...
...London, 3,000 school teachers planned to march from Thames Embankment to "soapbox corner" in Hyde Park, as a protest against the 15% cut in their salaries under the new budget (see p. 16). They were the first professional group so to demonstrate their discontent...
...Republic was an incubus on national politics. It waved the "bloody shirt" from every crossroads stump. It packed Congress with its mem bers. It put Generals Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison into the White House. It dictated legislation on pensions until the public cried loudly out in protest. Only with the coming of the 20th Century did Death down the G. A. R. as a political influence...