Word: protestable
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...were elected, he would spend the first two years cleaning house, and ridding the government of corruption. He also said that if at the end of that time he had not kept his promise, he would call a special election, and ask the people to repeat their vote of protest. It is significant that it is Mr. Davis who is to decide whether government is once more free and unspotted...
...Progressives are not lacking in common sense; they are quite as intelligent as the reactionaries. In fact, the presumption of intelligence is on their side, because a man must be informed before he can protest against an existing wrong and propose a remedy.. Anyone can submit to injustice without having any information on the subject at all; in fact, the less information he has, the less liable he is to protest...
When Premier MacDonald signed the treaty with Soviet Russia early in August, political prognosticators termed the action "the first note in Labor's funeral march". Perhaps the metaphor was a bit premature, for certainly MacDonald was not yet dead. But if the storm of protest that arose immediately after the document was signed can be taken as a symptom, there can be little doubt that the Government was in a critical position...
...Conservatives, who hoped to make stock of the Russian document, did not seem to have as keen an ear for the murmur as the person at whom the protest was directed, for as soon as the applause set in they were frightened into a policy of hopeful waiting. When the applause was to die down they hoped to stir the murmur into a growl and with a late fall campaign to bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Government to force an election...
...this rule must be obeyed, the student car-owner has three alternatives. First, he can pay his share of the $30,600--but this will not be done without protest. Second, he can do without his car, but I do not believe that he will unless the University passes a rule forbidding him to own one. Third, he can leave his car on the public streets, and take his chance on being arrested and paying innumerable fines. None of these alternatives is pleasant...