Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just as it was used by the Sprague defense, and that the Supreme Court, upholding the 18th Amendment against Mr. Root's attack, had quashed this line of argument. The case chiefly relied on by the Government to overturn the Clark ruling was one from Ohio involving a referendum on a constitutional amendment. Said the Supreme Court: "The method of ratification is left to the choice of Congress. Both methods of ratification, by legislature or convention, call for action by deliberative assemblies of the people which it was assumed would voice the will of the people. . . . The determination...
...weight.* The measure was rejected (97-86) but, impressed by the closeness of the vote, the Cabinet ministers dropped unofficial but important hints that so soon as the ice is out of the lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present Constitution does not provide for public referenda.) Finnish observers credited this parliamentary Wetness last week to the final windup of the famed Stahlberg kidnapping case, an affair whose origin had nothing whatever to do with Prohibition. Two months ago, after frugally breakfasting on bread and butter...
...executive session the Prohibitors voted against any sort of Prohibition referendum as "unauthorized, unconstitutional and unprecedented." They endorsed all the Wickersham Commission's enforcement bills, appointed a "combined board of Unified Strategy" under gentle, white-haired Mrs. Boole to plan their 1932 fight. They quizzed and cheered Prohibition Director Woodcock. Noticeable was a new but vain demand by lay Prohibitors to be included in the Dry leadership on equal terms with clergymen...
Last May, members of the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers Inc. petitioned the American Bar Association's executive committee to hold a referendum to decide once & for all where the Association stood. The committee agreed, sent out two ballots: the first to decide whether or not a referendum should be taken, the second to decide whether or not the Association should pass a resolution against Prohibition. If the first failed to pass, the second would be disregarded. All results were to be withheld until after the Congressional elections. At the Chicago convention in August, Dry lawyers made a last unsuccessful...
Last week the return showed: that more than 65% of the 30,000 members voted. That they voted almost 3 to 1 to carry out the referendum. That in the referendum they stood 13,779 to 6,340 in favor of placing the following resolution in the minutes of the Association's annual meeting next September at Atlantic City...