Word: protestable
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...Conservation Commission. To obtain your princely attorney fees, you have twiddled weak Governor Fuqua between your avaricious thumbs. For shame!" Last week, Mr. Sanders savagely denied that he was responsible for a new "invasion" of the Shreveport gas field by shoepolish interests. Governor Fuqua returned, unopened, a letter of protest from the chairman of the Public Service Commission...
...from the Agricultural Bank of Parma. Thus the Vatican's authority has seemed to wax triumphant over Fascismo's more intemperate ex-ponents-a fact which set rumors flying last week that Federzoni's abstention from the Cabinet's "decree session" was intended as a protest. The Holy See, whose advisors are long headed and far sighted, reputedly doubts the ultimate wisdom of curbing and driving Italians along the hard road mapped by II Duce. Mussolini. The Premier's lips were observed to curl silently last week when news gatherers asked him for a statement...
...erected, and it was expected some 3,000 would annually visit there. Merchants were pleased. Then the storm broke. Artists of many kinds who had gone to Santa Fe to make the old city their home, residents who had been attracted by its ancient beauty, rose in protest. "What will happen to our fine old town," they asked, "if you bring here a transient population half as large as that we now have?" This was not an isolated cry such as now and then rises in other towns. It was a tempest which echoed through the town's newspapers...
Pedro Guevera, Resident Commissioner of the Philippines, appeared on the House floor to score the Bacon bill, to protest that "Moro" was only a sort of nickname for Mohammedan Filipinos; that "Moros" and Filipinos were homogeneous; of one racial stock, of like temperaments and character...
...already in jail for participating in an unsuccessful revolution. From his cell he sent forth a manuscript whose seering verses he ordered printed in red ink. He called it Iras Santas (Sacred Furies). Peru was staggered by the sheer brutal power of this song of vengeance, this envenomed protest against civilization and its shams. José, bounding from his cell into the apogee of fame, became in his own words "the singer of America, a poet aboriginal and wild...