Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milwaukee's troubles stemmed largely from Mayor Hoan's refusal to cut city salaries beyond the voluntary 10% deduction set aside for relief. Taxpayers had to resort to the initiative & referendum to chip $7,000,000 off the 1933 budget. Municipal employes went unpaid during April, May and June while, the city hoarded cash to meet its bond interest payments. A grand jury, discovering a $500,000 embezzlement of city funds, indicted Comptroller Louis M. Kotecki for failing to discover the loss in his treasury audits. One day two months ago Kotecki shot himself dead after wounding...
...figure in the Guthrie constitutional convention because in 1906 oil had not yet been extensively developed in Oklahoma; 2) Governor Haskell, on retiring borrowed vacation money not from the State but from private friends; 3) his transfer of the State capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City followed a referendum, caused a great constitutional uproar and was finally confirmed by the State Supreme Court. TIME apologizes for these factual errors but has no apology to make for the general impression it conveyed of the Haskell career...
...Island. New Jersey, Wyoming, New York, Delaware, Nevada-and last week Illinois, by a 4-to-1 landslide, and Indiana, by 2-to-1, voted to ratify the 21st Amendment. Illinois, home State of the W. C. T. U. (at Evanston) had been conceded Wet since its 1931 Repeal referendum. Indiana, home of militantly Dry Senator Arthur Robinson, seat of the Northern Ku Klux Klan and of the Prohibition Party's last national convention, provided the first real test of strength of U. S. Drys, Consolidated...
...Last week Ohio Drys managed to delay a ratification vote ordered by the Legislature for November by rallying 242,000 petitioners, 88,000 more than necessary. Instead of voting for or against Repeal in November, Ohio voters will ballot on whether or not to hold such a referendum. The Dry maneuver lessened the possibility of 36 States ratifying the 21st Amendment before the end of the vear...
...Commonwealth's densely populated states, at the Eastern manufacturers who profit from the Commonwealth's high tariff, at the public works paid for by Australia's huge borrowings since the War. To humor their grudge, the State Legislature last December scheduled a state-wide referendum on two choices: 1) a Commonwealth convention to revise the Constitution; 2) secession from the Commonwealth. The rest of Australia remained calm at Western Australia's threat to jump off the edge of nowhere. Wartime Premier William Morris Hughes called secession "a crude and futile expedient." The Attorney General told...