Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The commission's new version of the marriage canon still forbids Episcopalian marriage for divorced persons, still provides that anyone remarried by a civil ceremony "shall forfeit his or her status as a Communicant." The new feature is a provision that "he or she may apply to any Minister...
It was after the invasion of the Lowlands, and the beginning of the Battle of France, that the isolationist front began to waver, and the war of words grew more bitter. Toward the end of May, 300 undergraduates signed a petition to President Roosevelt registering their determination "never, under any...
Dully inept was the Congressional defense of conscription. Majority Leader Alben Barkley in the Senate trusted Wheeler, Vandenberg & Co. to wear themselves out with words, the Gallup Poll (71% favored draft for ages 18-32) to offset a continuing flood of anti-conscription mail. Accepting an amendment to up Army...
Last week that resistance crumbled. In Tokyo, 126 (out of 466) members of the lower house of the Diet signed a petition denouncing Britain's "unpardonably atrocious" act in arresting nine Japanese as a retaliation for Japanese arrest of 15 alleged British spies. Next day the British War Office...
The Hatch Bill never had the support of the Administration. It was strenuously opposed by the Democratic leaders in the House. Its most formidable opponent was Texas' old, respected Hatton Sumners, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where the bill reposed. The Committee, horrified by the bill's...