Word: protestable
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...that time the meeting was under such rigid MacDonald control that, not only was a Red protest overwhelmed by a "card vote" of 2,844,000 to 206,000, but a moderate Trade Union leader, Ernest Bevin, was snowed under, 2,587,000 to 512,000, when he assailed the former Premier on a minor issue...
...called "Aventine Opposition" abstained from voting at the last session of Parliament, as a boycott-protest against a series of laws passed to give the Fascist Government practically unbridled power (see TIME...
...French resolution, (TIME, Sept. 28) providing that a conference shall be summoned to study the economic ills of the world, was passed after considerable protest from the British...
...forth to the bookstore, the stadium, the lecture hall, the soda fountain, the library, the bootlegger's, the chapel. (I ¶ At Yale University, not as many entered Battell Chapel as formerly in the drowsy, blink-eyed crack of dawn (8 a. m.). Unmoved by years of protest against enforced religious observance, but compelled by the physical limitations of their spiritual edifice, the Yale authorities had decreed that only freshmen would be required to attend daily services hereafter. The three upper classes would alternate their weekdays of devotion, would worship alternate Sundays. Dean Frederick S. Jones expressed the belief...
...mere subordinate sec-who has become a U. S. citizen, in 21 years has increased the resources of the Army in the U. S. from $1,500,000 to $32,000,000. Three years ago her brother removed her from her command, but there was such a flood of protest that she was reinstated for three years...