Word: protestable
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...have ears (not visible to the casual observer) and they heard the ear-splitting roar of a low-flying airplane carrying U. S. mail. This roar came twice daily and began to interfere with the profits of the proprietor of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm. So he wrote a protest last week to U. S. Postmaster General Harry S. New. Prompt to please, Mr. New asked the National Air Transport Co. (under contract to carry U. S. mail) to have its planes fly higher over Cackle Corner...
...have been Catholics. Catholic women once were passive in the matter, leaving to prelates denunciations of the movement. Lately, however, the women have assumed active antagonism. Last week, when the New York council of the National Council of Catholic Women met in Manhattan, they voted: "To continue actively the protest against all legislative measures, whether in the nation or in the State, which would permit the dissemination of information resulting in birth control, and so undermining the sanctities of family life...
...election (TIME, Oct. 24), raising $5,000 in Ireland and $145.000 in the U. S. and Australia. Mr. de Valera is now in the U. S., again soliciting campaign funds; and it is to checkmate him that President Cosgrave comes to the U. S.?however loudly he may protest that his mission is "non-political...
Mysteriously appearing from beneath the stage, the jazz orchestra leader stands on his unseen pedestal, raises his baton. To the elfing ripple of piano, the squeal of clarinet, the deep-throated protest of the bass saxaphone, and the triumphant laughter of the trumpet, the great gray house curtain rises slowly into the flies. Vanishing, it reveals the show curtain, pride of the company, whether of an appetite for clean fun in the academic halls there depicted, and a justifiable pride in this curtain which creates in advance the collegiate atmosphere for what Grantland Rice though "the only really convincing college...
Pivot Point. Roman Catholics still loudly protest the injustices done to their brethren in Mexico, but U. S. financial interests there became quietly expectant, recently, when it was found that Mexican tax revenues were falling below a point at which Señor Calles could meet the payments due to Manhattan bankers on the Mexican national debt...