Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Smith College Weekly in a recent editorial stated that "After the mid-year examinations the Weekly will endeavor to print in its columns every week the subjects, hours, and class rooms of lectures that it believes will be of most general interest to the Collegt," and appended a petition...
* Born in Virginia, raised in Tennessee, he was one of Andrew Jackson's lieutenants at fighting Indians. Tennessee sent him to Congress and elected him Governor in 1827. When his wife left him, he resigned as Governor and went to live with the Cherokees whom he had helped eject from...
It is safe to say that were "Bossy" the mayor of Boston instead of Newburyport, the opinions of the notionary residents of Beacon Hill would not gain even an audience, if their petition were as it is now for the permanent erasure of the words of moving light that shine...
The jurors were so touched by Defendant Remus's description of how he spent last Christmas in prison that they petitioned to have him set free at once without waiting for the test, required by law, to see if he was sane enough to be at large. Refusal of...
Jane Addams of Chicago, international president of the Woman's International League, to tender a 30,000-signature petition for adoption of no-war treaties with France, Britain and all other governments.