Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"With reference to your communication . . . you have rightfully exercised your right of petition by applying to one of those able to initiate laws, but I must sincerely tell you that I am the least fitted person to comply with the said petition ... as the constitutional articles you protest against are...
"If, in view of my refusal to ignore the laws and to seek the abolition or amendment of them, you still wish to use lawful means to attain your desires, the way is open to address your petition to the Deputies and Senators of the Federal Congress or to the...
Last week the politicians of France seemed at last somewhat chastened. Premier Herriot had fallen after only two days in office. As an earnest that they were willing to break party lines for once, some 300 Deputies, headed by Deputy Morinaud of Constantine, Algeria-a political nobody-signed a petition...
*It will be recalled that students at the University of North Carolina last May obtained by petition a series of lectures on the wedded state (TIME May 31).
Senator Underwood of Alabama (a Kentuckian by birth), one of the abler men of his party, "sound and conservative," who is serving his final term in the Senate, having announced that he will retire next March, had been pressing for an amendment to the Senate rules such as has been...