Word: referenda
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...issue is whether the strategy has worked. In large measure, the segment of the white population assumed sympathetic to Negro rights, white liberals, as represented by the New York Times, have opposed all major protests, especially those in the North, e.g. the March on Washington and school boycotts. Further, referenda which would guarantee Negro constitutional rights have been defeated or narrowly passed, e.g. Cambridge, Maryland, and Kansas City, Kansas. In addition, public officials have received more votes when they actively opposed Negro demands, e.g. Hicks in Boston and Wallace in Wisconsin. Moreover, white organizations specifically opposed to Negro rights...
...Board had been waiting for City Solicitor Richard D. Gerould '24 to say whether it was legally bound by the 16,802 to 15,308 referendum vote to discontinue fluoridation. Gerould cited a state Supreme Court decision in a recent Newton case that such referenda are only advisory, and told the Board that it has "sole authority to determine whether there shall be fluoridation...
...bill designed to clarify future referenda on fluoridation was signed into law this week by Gov. Peabody '42. Under the new law, referenda will read "shall the fluoridation of the public water supply ... be continued?" rather than "discontinued," as it was in the past...
...three referenda in the past ten years, Cambridge has alternately adopted and rejected fluoridation. Observers expect the new law to raise the pro-fluoridation vote if another referendum is hold...
...remove the matter from the area of public debate, and make it, like any other public health question, the concern of the municipal health authorities. By an act of the legislature in May, 1962, Massachusetts became one of the three states--the others are Maine and Nebrasks--that require referenda to begin or end fluoridation. Mrs. Raymond A. Bauer, chairman of the leading profluoridation group, says that no action has yet been taken to change the law. Unless it is amended, however, there will undoubtedly be a fourth fluoridation vote in 1965, and probably others at irregular intervals thereafter...