Word: protestable
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Meanwhile a board of education at Interlaken, N. J., busied itself with a stormy protest against national publication in the press of a picture of Col. Lindbergh...
...anger, not in malice, came measured words of protest, last week, from His Excellency Dr. Gustav Sthamer, German Ambassador to the Court of George...
Ambassador Sthamer quietly documented his protest, last week, by producing the official German account of the execution: ". . . Soldiers brought Fraulein Cavell from a neighboring house. Her eyes were bandaged and a black veil was placed over her head. While being led to the wall she tottered and fell in a faint, whereupon an officer, kneeling to aim, shot her. . . . She never faced the firing squad...
...furious waxed the German protest that the British Foreign Office finally informed the British Board of Film Censors that the licensing and release of Dawn would be "most objectionable." While the Board was expected to follow this hint, British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain thought it necessary to clarify his personal views in an announcement made by his private secretary...
Chief of the industrial hives of Spain is Barcelona, where smart Hispano-Suiza motor cars are made, where boulevards are broad and new, where huge docks and sprawling factories are ever busy. Last week 70% of the workers in Barcelona struck, in protest against the imposition of an income tax upon small pay envelopes. The tax was levied by decree of Dictator-Premier-General Primo de Rivera, paunchy, florid, strong, who proposes to extend State assistance to the impoverished and lackadaisical farmers of Southern Spain at the expense of such industrialized Northern cities as Barcelona...