Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both National Committees agree to recommend that the next Congress shall pass a law providing for a National Referendum to be held next spring, in which referendum each voter shall vote for one only of the following four alternatives...
...last July 23, Gerald E. ("Jerry") Buckley, radio announcer, sat in the lobby of the La Salle Hotel in Detroit. He had just finished broadcasting the returns of the referendum which recalled Mayor Charles Bowles from office (TiME, Aug. 4). Jerry Buckley's political broadcasts had made him a marked man in the city. One of Mayor Bowles's severest critics, he had vehemently advocated recall. His life had been threatened. As he sat in the hotel lobby, three men came up and shot him eleven times. Thousands went to his funeral. For weeks feeling ran high...
...last the legislature of Massachusetts has shown some recognition of the feeling of the people as expressed in the referendum on the Baby Volstead Act. The committee on legal affairs has reported a bill legalizing a 4.5 per cent beer. The reason given for this act, which shows such a strong sentiment against the eighteenth amendment, is that the workman will no longer have the incentive to consume the harmful hard liquors...
...bills) through the British House of Lords by threatening to create enough new Liberal Peers to override Conservative opposition, he (Mr. Lang) would appoint enough new Councilors not only to guarantee passage of his laws but, worse, to pass a special law abolishing the council itself without a popular referendum. Final threat to horrify Conservative New South Welshmen, Premier Lang announced that the new Councilors would be 60 of his "women friends." Political opponents, defenders of the Legislative Council, rushed to the courts with demands for a permanent injunction...
...last week. Chief Justice Street, of the High Court of New South Wales, to which Premier Lang plans an appeal, held "that the Consitution of New South Wales requires a specified manner and form for the passage of legislation abolishing the Council, which form in our opinion is a referendum." Observers doubted whether, now that abolition of the Upper House is impossible without a referendum, Premier Lang's 60 lady friends will ever become Councilors...