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Word: petitioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please raise your petition number to at least ten times that number. I can't help but feel that Nancy Smolling has not yet caught the true spirit of TIME. It has always appealed to the more spiritual side of my being and I forget the more superficial things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

During the conference, the women delegates talked among themselves about sex equality in the church. On one of the last days they-presented a petition setting forth the obvious fact that, whereas far more women than men go to church and do church work, the conduct of churches is almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Lausanne | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

In New Brunswick, N. J., at petition of residents, De Russey's Lane, famed scene of adultery and double murder in the Halls-Mills case of 1922-27, was renamed Franklin Boulevard. Realty in the neighborhood had boomed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 8, 1927 | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

After her conviction, Miss Whitney refused to petition for a pardon maintaining that such an act would be an admission of a guilt which she did not feel. Friends, however, carried her case to the U. S. Supreme Court which last May (TIME, May 23) upheld the constitutionality of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Unthinkable | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

(3 of 4) with performing an inhuman act you have spoken humane words. I do not wish that blood should be shed by my fault. I do not wish that civil war should break out in our country. "I surrender for the sake of France. I surrender for the memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Daudet Jailed | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

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