Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold W. Canavan, a Revere representative in the state legislature, is circulating an initiative petition to repeal the present zone system of auto insurance rates and substitute a flat rate for the whole of Massachusetts.
The little old lady sitting daily on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street is collecting signatures for Canavan's petition, which already has 13,000 of the 20,000 signatures needed by the December deadline to be put before the state legislature.
The Taft forces got some 400,000 signatures on a petition to change to the "Massachusetts ballot," which requires voting for each separate office. On that kind of ballot Taft would win or lose on his own name. Ohio will vote on the petition in November.
Judging the disaster, the U.S. had to face truths as bitter as they were plain. No one could deny the U.S. diplomats in China had faced fiercely stubborn problems, equally stubborn men. The Chiang regime (like the Greek government, which the U.S. also supported) suffered at one time or another...
After that a group of hotheaded ranchers were all for dealing with the sheriff and some of his political friends "in the good old Western way." They were dissuaded. But students from nearby New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts held a mass meeting, passed around a petition, managed...