Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nomination by Petition
In addition to these selections, anyone who has been in the College for one term or longer may be placed on the ballot by presenting a petition signed by 35 members of his class to Douglas Danner '46. president of Student Council at Phillips Brooks House any time before next...
'Mama, Mia.' The prosecutor demanded the death penalty, exclaimed: "Thus I have thrown your heads down before Italian history and perhaps even my own, but it is well, provided that Italy live." Eighteen Councilors, including five in custody, were sentenced to death (one got 30 years). The condemned...
Trans-Jordan's petition was another sign of rising Arab nationalism. Full sovereignty would raise Emir Abdullah to the rank of King, allow Trans-Jordan to join the nebulous but much-discussed union of Arab states. Britain prefers to postpone such problems until she can concentrate on her vital...
By the terms of the deal, Southerners would be allowed to protest at length and get themselves on record as favoring the poll tax and "white supremacy." Republicans and Northern Democrats, prodded by church, liberal, labor and Negro organizations, would pass around a petition to impose cloture and force a...