Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claims that the recent outburst is "more than a tempest in a teapot" resulting from the local politicians' desire to protect their system from the inroads of the type of scientific municipal government recently sponsored by Dean Landis in the Plan E charter referendum...
Final returns on the referendum gave 21,182 'No' votes to 20,188 'Yes' votes, a margin or defeat of 1,294. Approximately 5,700 ballots had no vote on the Plan E charter question. The total registration for election...
Several forces were at work on Tuesday which helped to defeat the Plan E charter, it has been reliably learned. Among them were the liquor interests which had women workers at each of the precincts, ranging in number from two to four...
Another factor which worked against the adoption of the charter was that polling took place in fire-stations in eight precincts in the city. Firemen are employees in the city. Firemen are employees of the city, a group which has expressed considerable opposition exerted influence against it as the balloting went...
...nucleus of the Plan E organization will probably be kept if the recount fails to change the verdict, and the charter will undoubtedly be brought before the electorate...