Word: petitioners
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Original victors were Walter E. Robb, 3rd '48, and Alan Balsam '48, the latter of whom was a nominee by petition. Two days later Noonan reported that Richard A. Snelling '48, who had lost out by only four votes in the first tally, had been added to the list of...
In the April 1940 issue of FORTUNE, Wendell Willkie, then a New York utilities executive not widely known to the U.S. people, published a declaration of principles, in the form of a petition to the platform makers of both parties. The declaration, widely reprinted, had an electric effect. Around him...
Wendell Willkie, Hanson W. Baldwin, William C. Bullitt and others who have been slapped down by the Russian press were joined by unexpected company last week. Soundly slapped down by Izvestia were British ex-Pacifist philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (The Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of the...
In response to a petition of the People's Political Council, the Chungking Government last week decreed that henceforth the national budget shall be made public.
The brief ritual consists of five hymns, parts of the 103rd and 46th Psalms, a Litany of Dedication, a Litany of Intercession, many a prayer. Besides the expected thanksgiving, the prayers also petition that God "may keep us humble in victory; forbid that we should harbor hatreds or revenge."