Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Union of South Africa has long had language trouble. Of its citizens, 1,226,382 speak Afrikaans (a simplified version of Dutch); 875,541 speak English; only 35,889 speak both. Since the country was officially declared bilingual in 1925, all official communications were supposed to be written in...
The University lost the first round yesterday in its attempt to have part of its Observatory Hill land rezoned to permit apartment house construction. The Cambridge Planning Board recommended to the City Council that the University's petition for a zoning change he denied.
M.L.T. professor Frederick J. Adams, chairman of the Planning Board, said that the University failed into explain at the public hearing on October 13 exactly how it planned to develop the land if the petition were granted.
A group of Cambridge residents, aiming for elimination of graft and better administration through change of government formed a Plan E committee. To get a referendum on the change, they secured the required 10,000 signatures on a petition before election in 1939.
First nominated by petition and then elected by their entries, the committee includes: