Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only newsy answer that he gave to any question served to bring the subject back to the pressing but rather more comfortable topic of foreign relations. Asked in cleverly-framed words whether he considered that holding a national referendum on declaring war would be consistent with representative government, he answered, flatly...
...Constitution to make it illegal for Congress to declare war except in the case of armed invasion. According to the Ludlow proposal, at other times "the authority of Congress to declare war shall not become effective until confirmed by a majority of votes cast in a nationwide referendum...
...Completed a petition calling for consideration of the Ludlow Anti-War referendum...
...draw up annual marketing quotas in advance for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, to obtain observance of them by means of benefit-paying voluntary contracts. Both bills agree in principle that when reserves on hand grow too large and two-thirds of the producers involved consent through a referendum, compulsory marketing control can be invoked and penalty taxes levied on further sales. Beyond that the House and Senate bills have so little in common that it was hard to find anyone in or out of Congress last week who supported both...
...quotas would be based on the aim of giving a bushel of either the same purchasing power it had between 1909 and 1914. The Government would impose on every bushel sold over Department of Agriculture marketing quotas a penalty tax of 50% of its price-provided that, in a referendum before the scheme goes into effect, two-thirds of the farmers affected approve the plan. Secretary Wallace's ever-normal granary would apply to both crops: the Government would begin to buy wheat for use in periods of scarcity when the supply is 10% above normal, corn when...