Word: protestable
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...over the consolidated railways or by shipment over the sugar companies' roads with a graduated tax of from five to twenty cents per hundredweight on the sugar shipped-a tax that the sugar companies say is prohibitive. The sugar companies and certain copper interests in like position are protesting at Washington that the Tarafa Bill is conflscatory and are asking intervention. It happens that the Cuban public railroads are also owned in large part by Americans. The railroad companies would profit by the bill. So their representatives are also in Washington, protesting against the sugar companies' protest. Colonel...
...incident, coming on top of many others (TIME, July 9, Aug. 13), aroused a storm of protest against Americans in the Paris press...
Candace and Bousse, Deputies, colored, prepared to raise a storm of anti-American protest in the Chamber. Supporting them, the French...
William Randolph Hearst, largest individual landowner in Mexico, has filed a formal protest with the State Department at Washington against the threatened seizure of his Barbicora ranch of 333,000 acres by the Farm Commission of the state of Chihuahua...
...protest in Washington places his estates on the list of seized properties discussed by the Recognition Conference, just at the moment when it was thought that the most difficult of the problems discussed were on the way to solution...