Word: referenda
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...hundred signers, a three-quarter vote then bound the Council to act in accordance with the student opinion. Dropping the provision will enable the Council to act more efficiently, its leaders tell us. No longer will it be bothered by the "joker element" of students that introduces crackpot referenda...
...council abolished this clause Silveira said, because it feared too much of its time would he spent on referenda...
...labor referenda, getting out the vote, and birth control. They also wanted to raise teacher's pay, were usherettes at a Roosevelt Day dinner, and dispatched delegates to various conventions. The SDA would have little to do with the HLU and refused the latter's offer to hold a joint dance. The other partisan groups did nothing without Harvard...
...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...