Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight years ago, when the Communist Party petitioned for a place on the ballot in Pennsylvania, the Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press had a sly idea. It published the names of petition signers, and waited for the reaction. The Communists howled that the Press was intimidating them. But of 4,800...
MVA supporters fought back. Labor, farm, and business groups organized a Missouri Valley Regional Committee to promote MVA in July, 1945, and called for a million-name petition to be waved at the rocaleitrant Congress. One of the Committee's promoters, a state senator from Missouri, had just been converted...
Associate Dean Watson recently gave the group permission to circulate a petition, so tomorrow and Friday hordes of Eisenhower men will descend on House dining rooms to set up the usual tables and start collecting signatures.
Weld added that because four candidates had not yet turned in their biographies last night, and because two men had until 8:30 o'clock this morning to file petition, he could not guarantee that all 20 students would appear on the ballot today.
Student Government officers gave no official answer to the "why?" of their announcement. There was a universal attitude, however, that "no one at Radcliffe will know the difference any way." If that assumption is true, then the morality of their decision is indeed of no importance. If, as many people...