Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted Wet. U. S. Medicine wants Modification. U. S. Labor wants beer. The American Legion wants a referendum (TIME, Oct. 5). Part of the theory is that the return of brewing if not of distilling would benefit the U. S. farmer by using up his grain...
...Should the Prussian Diet be dissolved immediately as unrepresentative of Prussian opinion? The Reich Government fought it bitterly, for if the Hitlerites should gain control of the Diet it would be comparatively simple for them to gain the Reichstag as well and form a new government. Hitlerites urging the referendum were suddenly joined by their old enemies the Communists, on the theory that anything certain to make trouble is the proper thing for German Communists to vote...
...urge citizens to stay away from the polls altogether. They made but one mistake. So serious did Herren Brüning & Braun consider the situation that they made use of a new emergency press law to force every German newspaper to print a manifesto against the referendum on its front page, in large type, without comment. This high-handed order won a lot of votes for the extremists. Even moderate editors sympathizing with Chancellor Bruning's problems considered it an unwarranted attack on the liberty of the Press. Worst of all. it brought a growling protest from Germany...
Bloodshed. Election came and went and only 37% of the Prussian electorate voted for dissolution of the Diet. Brüning & Braun were saved. But they were not saved without bloodshed. When Communists in Berlin learned that the referendum was failing the most serious street fighting broke out that Germany has seen since the Bloody May Day of 1929 (TIME, May 13, 1929) In Bulow Square police with rifles in their hands patrolled the streets near the Communist headquarters, Liebknecht House. Suddenly, as at a given command, spurts of fire burst from the windows, from nearby roofs. Two police captains...
...there be no majority of all votes cast then, at a run-off referendum (held the following November), let the two measures securing the highest number of votes be voted for, the result of the second vote being promptly carried through into...