Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Transportation Act of 1920 provided a Labor board to discuss disputes between operators and workmen, but its findings were not made mandatory. The Watson-Parker Bill of 1926 amended the Labor board's functions to include arbitration. The Board's name became "Mediation Board"; its findings were made "final...
Carl Schurz Petrasch '30 of New York City was added to the list of nominees for the Student Council by petition.
In Washington, Hooverites started forming a Committee of One Thousand. Of the 237 Republicans in the House of Representatives, 110 signed up. At least 20 of the 48 Senate Republicans were expected to sign. The Hooverizing petition said: "We have been fortunate in President Coolidge. We must have in his...
Herbert Howard, son of Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., in company with one Edward Bullough, fellow student at Caius College, Cambridge, paid a visit to Pope Pius XI. They presented to His Holiness a petition asking the Canonization of the Blessed Cardinal Fisher, onetime Chancellor...
Last week, only one member was carried from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in a state of complete collapse. A petition circulated among members for a three day holiday, Good Friday, the intervening Saturday and Easter Monday, appeared to find more brokers fascinated by the profits of...