Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the number of signatures to a petition condemning the Neutrality Act approached one third of the undergraduate body, three interventionist committees that differ in little but name made last-minute preparations yesterday for a jointly-sponsored "crush Hitler" rally in Sever 11 at noon.
The unusual success of the anti-Neutrality petition sponsored by the presidents of six undergraduate and graduate committees is evidenced by the 125 signatures already garnered from the Business School, traditionally a rock of indifference toward the tumultuous politics of the College.
Exerpts from the petition, which ends at the rally today, follows:
William Howard Taft had been one of the seven former presidents of the American Bar Association (including Elihu Root) who had signed a petition in 1916 to the Senate Judiciary Committee declaring that Louis Dembitz Brandeis was unfit to serve as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Interest in the long-debated question was revived last spring when the Student Council approved a petition signed by 1052 undergraduates, requesting that the broadcasts be instituted so as to replace at least in part the loss sustained by the 10 per cent slash in the athletic budget.