Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this impasse have matters remained. The strikers, with yells of "Judas!" at the Union heads, have picketed strenuously, tried to prevent ships from sailing, offered to submit to referendum. The Union heads, with yells of "Outlaw!" at the strikers, have successfully found crews for all outbound ships, refused to put the question to a Union referendum. Last week, as both sides stood pat, Leader Curran claimed 4,500 of New York Harbor's 10,000 seamen were behind him. The Union heads put the figure...
Governor Curlcy's determination to force a referendum upon the Judges Retirement Plan has raised such an unsavoury smell around greater Boston that the odor of his rotten egg has seeped up Beacon Hill into the State House and irritated the gubernatorial nostrils. Being a man accustomed to a parasitic circle of "Yes" men, this unusual opposition has annoyed him considerably. In fact the Governor has become so aroused that he has started libel proceedings against a Boston Newspaper, alleging that marked copies of newspapers distributed several days ago had articles in them stating that he had ignored the Constitution...
Article 48 of section 2 of the State Constitution states clearly that initiative and referendum petitions do not apply to the appointment, qualification, tenure and removal of judges, but yet Mr. Curley feels that by subterfuge or bluffing he can circumvent this restriction. As Representative Bowker of Brookline said yesterday, "The use of the threat to do this if you don't is old stuff with the Governor and I hope that this specific case where he has made his bed and refuses to lie in it will make some people realize what kind of a man we have...
...Millard E. Tydings of the Senate Committee on Territories & Insular Affairs quietly rose on the Senate floor and announced: "Mr. President, I shall send to the desk shortly a bill proposing to give the people of Puerto Rico the option of becoming independent as a result of a national referendum. . . . The bill will be introduced with the support of the Administration...
Only Puerto Rican publicly to rejoice was Pedro Albizu Campos. He predicted that if the referendum on independence were put to the people, they would vote 90% for freedom...