Word: directing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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HARVARD-YALE DEBATE. Sanders Theatre, 8 P.M. Subject: "Resolved, That all Elective State Officers should be nominated by Direct Primaries." Admission by ticket only...
HARVARD-YALE DEBATE. Sanders Theatre, 8 P. M. Subject: "Resolved, That all Elective State Officers should be nominated by Direct Primaries." Admission by ticket only...
...Corporation has authorized the establishment of a Bureau of Research in Government, which is to be maintained by a gift of $2500 a year for ten years offered by F. G. Thomson '97 and C. Thomson '99, both of Philadelphia, Pa. Professor W. B. Munro is to direct the work of this Bureau, and it is expected that it will be in operation at the beginning of the next College year...
...organization recently formed at Washington. It was organized for the purpose of promoting progressive legislation and of thwarting the pernicious influence of special interests. The league believes that popular government is fundamental to all other questions. To this end it advocates the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, direct primaries for the nomination of all elective officials, the direct election of delegates to national conventions with opportunity for the voter to express his choice for President and Vice-President, amendment to state constitutions providing for the initiative, referendum, and recall, and a thorough general corrupt...
...results of this movement toward direct popular government have been important and good. The employee can now collect fair damages from his employer; in civil procedure the defendant must now convince one-fourth of the jury that he is innocent; judicial decisions cannot be reversed for trivial errors; railroads are kept in control by the club of the initiative and referendum; state officers are made to do their duties by the recall, stationed as a guard over them; a larger percentage of intelligent voters has come forward to run the government with wisdom; experts are planning and arguing...