Word: protestable
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...Senate fought President Coolidge to a standstill; and as the dust settles the result begins to draw interest. Without warning and without protest, John G. Sargent has been raised in a twinkling to the Attorney-generalship. Unexpectedly nominated and immediately approved by the Senate, he is already at work on his new duties. It is, indeed, a relief to find such harmony restored within the administration; but whence is this man to whose appointment there is no whisper of opposition? What is his past record, and what his qualifications...
Alsace. Archbishop Ruch of Alsace ordered all schools in the Province to incept a three days' strike as a protest against the Government instituting interdenominational schools at Colmar. His Eminence also gave his approval to the demand of the Committee of Action for the Defense of Religious Liberty and Traditions in Alsace that all "Christian" (i.e., Catholic) parents observe the strike...
...What are my crimes and that of my Government? We are laymen and we are fighting for laicism, which is not an aggressive doctrine. We stand for freedom of conscience and we protest when in this 20th Century an attempt is made in the name of dogma to constrain conscience and when we are told, as our ancestors were told in the Middle Ages, that Science and Liberty are idols...
...hysteria for the repression of minorities is dying a hard death, Employers still find public support for the breaking of strikes through resort to laws against criminal syndicalism. Any protest by labor unions is proof positive of the spread of sinister influence. And if cries are heard from the red or yellow press--the more need for stern suppression...
...interesting side light on undergraduate indifference to note that the organizations of tife various clubs and societies to which they belong are usually effected without a whimper of protest. They smile pleasantly, say "aye" when they are told to do so: and each votes for the officers that the man next to him puts down. But if for one moment they suspect that someone is trying to force their hand, then chaos reigns and the little demagogues of Government I rise in wrath and howl defiance...