Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago, in a lively referendum from ocean to ocean, the people of the U. S. chose their own Man of the Year, and clearly the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the Presidency was without equal elsewhere in the world as an individual accomplishment. To millions & millions of "forgotten men'' he was a big-jawed, happy Messiah whose "new deal" would somehow put money into everybody's-pocket. To himself, victory was the sweet reward of long years of careful planning, unremitting work...
...Received from Ohio's Cable a resolution proposing amendment of the Constitution by popular initiative and referendum...
...telegraphs, belong to the State, public utilities are closely supervised. There is universal military training, though citizens only serve two weeks a year after their first two months' training (three months for the cavalry). Citizens can and frequently do veto unpopular laws passed by the Federal Assembly by direct referendum. Inherited wealth is heavily taxed in most cantons. The President has very limited powers, serves for one year only...
Under the auspices of the League of Nations Association, of which both President Lowell and W.Y. Elliott, professor of government, are members, a referendum will be submitted to about half a dozen communities in the vicinity of Boston, including Concord, Belmont, and Waltham, on the question of the United States joining the League of Nations with such reservations as the Senate sees fit. Professor Elliot, who has long taken a great interest in the work of the League of Nations, is an active member of the Association and is one of the principal organizers of the present referendum...
...next national platform is to fight a sham battle because the 18th Amendment is here to stay and the quicker we recognize it the better." This year when the deluge started, Mr. McAdoo became less sure of the permanence of the 18th Amendment. He commenced mumbling the familiar weasel: "Referendum." After his party declared for Repeal, he went silent on Prohibition, left primary voters to guess what he favored...