Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third debate the Harvard Congress last night decided in favor of the Ludlow Amendment which proposes a referendum to declare war in America...
...relative to other commodities which wheat, corn, rice and cotton enjoyed between 1909-14 and tobacco between 1919-29 (unless Secretary Wallace thinks other base periods would be more just); and 3) to invoke compulsory marketing quotas, subject to rejection by one third of the growers involved in a referendum and enforced by penalty taxes, whenever national supplies of any crop exceed specified levels...
...crop at a fixed price almost certainly higher than the market price he will get when he sells it. They need not be repaid and bear no interest, although if the farmer stores his crop in a Government warehouse he may be liable for storage charges. A referendum on a marketing quota will be held when supplies reach 940,000,000 bushels...
Tobacco is the product of big growers and its regulation will be almost altogether compulsory. Not only are no loans mandatory, but marketing quotas can be invoked with a referendum when supplies are 5% over normal, and penalties are 50% of the purchase price...
...threat resulted in the calling of a referendum on a $550,000 bond issue to raise salaries, repair buildings, hire more teachers. To vote in San Antonio, however, citizens must be on the tax rolls, declare property valued at $10 or more. This presented a problem to the city's low-paid teachers, who own little besides personal possessions. The resourceful teachers solved the problem, however, by hastening to declare the personal property that tax-dodging citizens ordinarily do not list. Blonde, comely Lee Ray Chandler listed her cello. Janitor C. C. Woodward declared his cow. Teacher...