Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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3) Hugh S. ("Mail Order") Magill, independent Republican Dry, who is backed by Julius Rosenwald in "a revolt of good citizenship" against the two other "slush" candidates. In August, Mr. Rosenwald, head of the mail order house of Sears, Roebuck & Co., visited President Coolidge, is believed to have told him...
Petition Squelched. Roman Catholic attempts to secure six million signatures for a petition of protest to be presented to the Mexican Parliament resulted in the presentation to that body last week of the petition-signed by 162,830 persons. The Mexican Chamber of Deputies refused to act upon the petition...
*Deputy Ernesto Hidalgo of Guanajuato. His valorous championship of the petition was greeted by cries of "Swine, you have taken Catholic bribes! Let him talk himself into the mud! Let's talk about the Dempsey-Tunney fight!" (News of this match was then being received over the radio.)
I am a little petition only a few months old. But I grew fast-now I am 5 ft. tall and have to be tied up in a bag. I am a very important petition-17,226 pages constitute my physique; within me are the signatures of 437,163 Illinois...
Wily Greeks hurried to Athens last week, sought rich pickings. Dictator Pangalos had been deposed, jailed (TIME, Aug. 30). His equally notorious successor in dictatorship, General Kondylis was, per force, passing out the plums of his new regime. The time was ripe for unctious smirks and fawns, for oratory, guile...