Word: protestable
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...made," wrote McKenzie Moss, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. "Permit me to assure you of my concurrence in the expressions of regret that this unfortunate incident should have occurred," wrote Secretary of State Hughes. Thus did Uncle Sam address the Hungarian Legation at Washington-in reply to a protest from Count Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister-because an unwary prohibition agent committed a "violation of the domicile" of Andor de Hertelendy, Attaché of the Hungarion Legion. Nothing of an incriminating nature transpired...
...thousand police assembled in the Royal Albert Hall, London, to protest against a lower wage proposal. The meeting attracted a good deal of interest because the Labor Party has been trying to get the police force unionized. Sir James Remnant, M.P., said to them: "For God's sake don't be mixed up in politics...
...Marine Corps to make the people conform to laws they evidently do not like." The Chamber of Deputies voted an appropriation of 15,000,000 francs for the relief of sufferers from "floods, tidal waves, avalanches, forest fires and other calamities." Communists in Paris decided to hold a Ruhr protest meeting. They secured the Syndicalist Hall. The Syndicalists waited until the Communists (now their hated enemies) arrived and then began to break up the meeting. When Marcel Cachin mounted the platform, a free fight broke out. Chairs, lamps, windows and the platform were broken. Then numerous revolver shots. People fled...
...many months a committee of divines, headed by Dr. Murray S. Howland of Buffalo, has been preparing a protest. It was issued last week in the form of "An Affirmation," which, summarized...
...communication of protest to the U. S., the Italian Government said: "It is sincerely hoped that the Government of the United States will use every effort in suggesting to Congress a way of not reducing to a devisory figure the immigration of the people that have contributed so much to the productivity and prosperity of the United States, and that a solution of the immigration problem may be arrived at that will not affect so harshly the interests and the pride of the Italian nation, which has always had for the American people feelings of true friendship and esteem...