Word: protestable
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...trying to secure the release of the men imprisoned in this country for breaking wartime laws, is going to try a new method of securing its ends. The petition to President Harding of 52 notables (TiME, June 11) brought no results. Now the Amnesty Committee is preparing more vigorous protest...
During a debate Lady Astor persisted in transgressing a parliamentary rule by reading a supplementary question. Laborites were loud in protest. The Speaker called the honorable lady to order. He suggested tactfully that she should hand her question in to him. Said Lady Astor with enough heat to give her meaning a double entente: "I'll give it to you! I'll let you have it." She did. The Laborites cheered derisively...
Wine growers are planning a protest...
...against Britain and the other Allies in the matter of refusing Hungary permission to raise an international loan freed from the obligations imposed by the Treaty of Trianon. The reason is, so far as he made it evident, that Hungary, unlike Austria, has accepted her treaty obligations only under protest...
...always been to eliminate such tariffs, and to establish a uniform practice throughout the country of clearing all checks at par as far as possible. The tenacity with which the Southern bankers have clung to their collection charges for out-of-town exchange has provided most of the protest against the Reserve system below the Mason and Dixon line. Such charges have proved, however, a burden and a nuisance to American business, and sentiment in general is with the Reserve in its par collection campaign. Recently, the National Association of Credit Men, in its convention report, endorsed the stand taken...