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Word: petitioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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To test his theory, Reporter Hammer persuaded the Press makeup editor, Richard Campbell, 25, and his wife Florence Margaret to act as guinea pigs. Signing himself "C. P. Ress, atty.," Hammer drew up a divorce petition for the happily married Campbells. He stamped the application with a notary's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sign Here | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

White-haired little Common Pleas Judge Samuel H. Silbert, who has ruled on 35,000 divorce cases in 25 years on the bench, unhesitatingly scrawled his signature on the fake petition. From first to last there was no hearing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sign Here | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

4. Exceptions to these requirements may be made on petition to the Committee on General Education.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of the GE Proposals | 2/8/1949 | See Source »

As Consciences Demand. At last, the vestrymen decided to do something about the Melishes. They voted 9 to 1 to petition Long Island's Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe "for separation and dissolution of the pastoral relationship . . ." But spry old Rector Melish was not one to go quietly. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: War in Brooklyn | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

From Threats to Rewards. "This petition will soon be typed," explained an official. "You will sign it first. On Friday evening a car with two of our Communist friends will call for you. All priests will be home then, and you will persuade them to sign . . . You'd better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: If You Cooperate | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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