Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since undergraduates ate in Mem Hall on the Delta and complained, "Lo! the butter stinketh!" there have been complaints about Harvard food. The petition currently being circulated may be described merely as the umpteenth in a series.
Realizing that she could not meet her bonded debt. Miss Roche in 1939 asked bondholders to extend the maturity date ten years. Ninety-three percent agreed. Four years later, some of the others sued for principal and accrued interest. In 1944, beaten Josephine Roche filed a petition of bankruptcy.
Three days earlier, a Senate labor subcommittee had called on the War Labor Board to regard all wages below 65? (instead of 55?, as at present) as substandard. And two days later, 70 House members had signed a petition asking President Truman to revise the battered Little Steel formula, permit...
Said Italian-born Judge Eugene Alessandroni: nothing unlawful about it. Petition granted.*
Another symptom: British housewives, led by a clergyman's wife, last week rebelled against queuing up for all foods, signed an "end-the-queue" petition to the Government.