Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came news last week that the Norwegian Storthing (Parliament) had changed the city's name to "Nidaros" (pronounced Nee-dar-oss)?effective Jan. 1, 1930. To many a Trondhjemmer's ear the sound of "Nidaros" is ugly, coarse, repugnant. Soon 25,000 irate citizens (nearly half Trondhjem's population...
For the strikers one E. F. Foster presented a petition asking for the repeal of the taxicab ordinance. He said 50,000 names were signed to it.
The sculptor's friends maintained he was sent to the asylum on a false and illegal petition of his brother, Walter Ludwig Dreyfuss, wax-paper manufacturer. The sculptor's friends asked for a jury trial saying: "His sanity can be established before any judge or tribunal." This was...
Wabash Plan. The opening of the present week saw another disturbance of the rail status quo, and again the movement was pro-Pennsylvania and anti-Baltimore & Ohio. The Wabash Railway proposed a plan which aimed at creating a 7,044-mile system with the 2,400-mile Wabash as a...
3) Priests and lay members of the Church may petition to the government for amendment, repeal or passage of any law.