Word: referenda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been debunked by the good sense of the electorate, so too have their local disciples been revealed as thoroughly unrepresentative of university liberal opinion. On the other hand, the Liberal Union has quietly worked hard and long together with labor and ADA groups to help defeat and anti-labor referenda and elect Truman and Dever, without the undue fanfare and disproportionate publicity that the right and left extremes received. On Nov. 2, the state and nation turned to the "third force," its non-communist left, and the HLU "politicos" neither were "beaten" nor in "retreat", but, on the contrary, quite...
Massachusetts voters yesterday turned down the three State labor-curbing referenda by substantial margins. The birth-control referendum, in a tight vote, appeared to have lost early this morning...
...Liberal Union and Radcliffe Students for Democratic Action will listen to results in the Leverett Junior Common Room from 9 p.m. on. The groups are hoping chiefly for victories in the Senate and on the anti-labor referenda...
...nine referenda facing Massachusetts voters today, only four--Questions 5, 6, and 7, the "labor referenda," and Question 4, the birth control measure--have provoked angry debate. Two other measures have also stirred up some controversy, but it is doubtful whether much of the citizenry even knows they are on the ballot...
Dever's campaign also involves the tricky Massachusetts Transit Authority question. He has accused the MTA--and Bradford--of hiding a $9,000,000 deficit and of jacking up fares. Dever says the Republicans have failed to supply the Commonwealth with cheap water power. Referenda 5, 6, and 7, the labor bills, are pet peeves of Dever, and he has criticized the Governor's support of a 2 percent sales...