Word: protestable
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...could throw House control to the democracy and elevate John Nance Garner of Texas to the Speaker's dais. Eleven of them were independents from Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, who sought liberalization of the House rules as the price of party support. The other seven bolted as a protest against the Longworth leadership which had refused to bring up at the last session oil embargo legislation demanded by independent producers against the big importing companies. Representative-elect Harold McGugin announced from Topeka that he would vote Democratic on House organization- a possibility which would produce...
...tolerance and free speech, but on account of its very passivity and sanity it fails to give the true radical a sense of striving towards the goal which will arise from the new order. The second method consists in actual participation in the reform movements by mass meetings of protest, presentation of petitions, or even furnishing bail for less fortunate or discreet colleagues...
...Women's Republican Club, slightly charred by the great fire, the city's best and brightest people are meeting hourly to protest the rule of the "nine" in whose hands Billy left the city's virtue and the keys to heaven. The Boston Puritans, a strictly non-commercial ball team, has been organized to combat the menace. But they refuse to play the evangelical boys until they are permanently assured of the repeal of Sunday Baseball...
...court Suffraget Richardson announced the whole affair was a protest against the incarceration of Chief Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst, at the time on a hunger strike in Holloway Jail...
...anything more intricate musically than "Men of Dartmouth." Whether the Post is right or wrong in this assumption, and we believe it wrong, the statement that college singers should not be expected to live up to the standards of excellence of the average choral society calls forth a protest...