Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...votes Dry, drinks Dry, is thought to favor a Prohibition referendum...
...Before a W. C. T. U. audience Democratic Governor George White of Ohio, longtime Dry and his State's "favorite son" for the presidential nomination, last week declared for a referendum on Prohibition, stirred loud "nays" with the declaration that the public was entitled to such a vote...
...straws to indicate that the party might stop weasling, might devise a new, Wetter formula at the Chicago convention to match the shifting sentiment of the past twelve years. What the formula would be was anybody's guess but there was no doubt that the idea of a referendum plank has lately gained great strength among G. O. P. leaders. Seven straws...
...From a meeting of Republican national committeemen in Washington to arrange convention details word was passed out that 25 of the 53 members of the platform committee were already Wet and ready to support a referendum plank, while at least 535 of the 1,154 delegates will take a more liberal stand on Prohibition...
...Irrepressible Secretary Hurley last week clashed with Democratic John Jacob Raskob. Declared Mr. Raskob in New York: "I have good information that President Hoover will run on a Prohibition referendum platform if his party should adopt such a platform." Retorted Mr. Hurley: "Mr. Raskob is in a position to speak much more accurately of the amount of money he and his associates have spent slandering and misrepresenting the President than he is of the President's views on the 18th Amendment. . . . I'm not speaking for the President and I don't think anyone else...