Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A total of 111 girls had signed two petitions protesting the decision. One petition, circulated in Briggs Hall, called the ruling "arbitrary" and asked for continuation of the "right of choice."
Ellsworth J. Holden, Jr. 4G, who presided at the protest meeting, said he will discuss the order with Mary Tillman tomorrow. A petition will be presented to whomever she says is responsible for the order.
Virginia's Smith especially subscribes to the latter when civil rights bills are before his committee. In 1956 he delayed Rules consideration of a civil rights bill for more than a month, was finally forced, by a signed petition from his own committee, to hold hearings. For days Southern Congressmen...
Down on the Farm. Last year, in the final hectic days of the 85th Congress, Rules Chairman Smith took no chances on being forced by a committee petition to call hearings. As a dozen major bills -relief for depressed areas, housing, mineral subsidies, etc. -piled up before Rules, Howard Smith...
Korns also claimed that the petition's provision for extension under "whatever conditions the Administration may care to make" would more than compensate for the age difference between freshmen and sophomores.