Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As the House Committee on Un-American Activities directs its attention to American Youth for Democracy and calls for investigations, a petition comes before the Deans of the College this Friday which asks official status as a University organization for Harvard members of the AYD.
...University of Michigan, the pro-capitalists gave leftists a lesson in infiltration. The university had approved a petition for a campus Karl Marx society. At the first meeting, the 25 Marxist petitioners were delighted by a turnout of 150. But when it came time for elections, a solid wedge of the new recruits-conservatives from the School of Business Administration-put up their own slate. Explained new President Elmer Faust: "We Business Administration students are very interested in Marxism...
For a year, the battle raged in & out of courtrooms, in the press, at public meetings. When Sweatt filed a petition for a court order to force the University to admit him, a cautious judge deferred decision for six months, in December turned down the petition. Sweatt appealed the case...
Petitions from class members for nomination on the ballot will be received until 5 o'clock Monday in Room Three of the Union, the committee decided. Each petition must be signed by at least 20 men before it is submitted. Men whose ballots have received the required 20 names will...
Today the forces of good government are driving for revision of the City's charter and a change to a city manager form of government. in Massachusetts, any city but Boston has the option of choosing "plan E" after Petitions have put it on the ballot. Headed by the League...