Word: protestable
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This has aroused southern and eastern European countries to protest against the "discrimination" of the Johnson bill. Citizens of foreign birth likewise protest against the exclusion of their countrymen. Politically this results in opposition to the bill from the representatives of urban districts such as New York, in which the foreign born population is largely concentrated. It also presents a problem to the Republican Party-the possibility of losing New York's electoral votes this year on account of the "foreign born vote." The Japanese Government has protested the provision of the new bill: "No alien ineligible to citizenship...
...protest against the flagrant outrage done the Mother of God by recent widespread and blasphemous denials of the Virgin Birth of her Divine Son," Bishop McDevitt of Harrisburg, Pa., sang a solemn pontifical mass at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Manhattan. Archbishop Hayes presided...
...citizen of North Carolina and one who has had to do with the education of some thousands of girls in our grand old Commonwealth, and one of the 500,000 members of her different churches, may I protest against the arraignment of our Governor in the letter of Northrup Fowler of Amenia...
...Budapest, the police ruled that the Hungarian text of the famed Banana Song is immoral and must not be sung in public, ordered a jazz band in a popular cafe to cease playing the melody. The indignant musicians asserted that a melody cannot be immoral, filed a protest with the Department of the Interior...
Some of the radical Senators, elected to "protest," have naturally bewailed the farmers' sorry lot and urged legislation sundry and various. On the other hand, the Secretary of Agriculture's recent report (TIME, Dec. 31) was, except for the wheat belt, distinctly optimistic...