Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the Central Falls veterans had started out to get was a 20% pay raise they had been promised. When Chief of Police George Collette shrugged the whole thing off they went to see the city's political boss, old Uncle Andrew Sherry, in adjoining Pawtucket. Sherry suggested circulating...
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Newport neighbors scored a smashing victory over a junkman. For some 30 years he had been heaping his own yard with indelicate odds & ends, and he lived just a tin-can's throw from the very best people. So Mrs. Peyton J. Van Rensselaer got...
After unsuccessfully badgering three California radio stations for an opportunity to air his atheism, a retired Palo Alto court reporter named Robert Harold Scott had petitioned the FCC to revoke the stations' licenses. For 16 months the FCC juggled this hot potato. Finally, it denied Scott's petition...
Off to a sludgy start, the conference finally picked up speed, reached some decisions : to concentrate on raising the family status of African women; to petition the Belgian Government for reinstatement of a law encouraging monogamy; to prepare the way for more conversions (of 11 million natives, Protestants and Catholics...
By what authority does the current Council limit the right to referendum to those demon reformers who can collect 500 names on a petition? By what right does it limit the powers of proposing and ratifying amendments to its own membership? Merely because 17 members of a Student Council guessed...