Word: signer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motorcycle, setting informal fashions in dress. Though he sometimes still wears a top hat and cutaway. // Duce decided last week that in the case of lesser Fascist officials even occasional display of such formal clothes should be discouraged. In Rome the Fascist party's Spartan Secretary General, Signer Achille Starace, sent out to all Fascist officials last week the following six-point general guide to official behavior...
Roberta Keene Tubman, descendant of Signer of the Declaration of Independence William Hooper, a vice president of the America's Good-Will Union, was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of communists got on. Lustily they sang the "Internationale." Mrs. Tubman boiled, then rose and gave voice to "The Star-Spangled Banner." Over & over she sang it, pitching it higher and higher. Louder sang the Communists. At the next station more Communists got on, joined in the "Internationale." Mrs. Tubman pitched "The Star-Spangled Banner" still higher. At last she was obliged...
Final results from the Phillips Brooks House Peace Poll show that 515 of the 1070 students voting in the poll favored question two which pledged the signer to bear arms only in case America is attacked by a foreign power. Questions one and three received 229 and 326 votes respectively...
...questions on the petitions were as follows: 1. The signer will not bear arms in any war. 2. The signer will bear arms only in case America is attacked by a foreign power. 3. The signer will bear arms in any war in which America may become involved...
...questions appearing on the ballots were: 1. The signer will not take part in any war of any kind whatsoever, regardless of whether or not America is the aggressor. 2. The signer will bear arms only in case America is attacked by a foreign power. 3. The signer will take part in any and all wars in which the United States may become involved and will take active part in the spreading of educational peace propaganda in schools and colleges. The returns, complete from those reporting, are as follows: No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Brooks 6 18 2 Dunster...