Word: referendum
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Last week, however, that prospect was materially altered when Illinois Republicans held their State convention at Springfield. A Prohibition referendum goes on the Illinois ballot this November, due to the 400,000 petition signatures obtained by Chairman Bernard Snow of the Cook County Republican Committee and his Wet friends. Voters are asked three questions: 1) Shall the 18th Amendment be repealed? 2) Shall the Volstead Act be modified? 3) Shall the State Dry law be repealed? On two previous Prohibition polls (1922, 1926), Illinois voted Wet two-to-one. Observers last week could detect no shift in sentiment this year...
...heartily approve my party's declaration that it will be responsive to the popular expression on these referendum questions. ... If a majority are recorded as favorable to repeal of the 18th Amendment, I stand ready, when elected Senator, to obey their mandate and I shall vote to submit the question of its repeal to the several States. If the expressed will of the people is for modification of the Volstead Act, my course would be in sympathy with the principle so approved...
Prohibition reached such a pitch that the A. B. A. executive committee decided to forestall a public outburst on the convention floor by polling by mail the full membership. On its own authority the committee sent each and every member two questions: 1) Do you favor a referendum by the Bar Association on the 18th Amendment? 2) Do you favor repeal of the 18th Amendment? The answers were to be returned in separate envelopes. The executive committee would first count the vote on Question No. 1 to see if the membership approved of the policy...
...votes and drinks Dry, although his State has repealed its Prohibition law by referendum...
...Treasurer Beaverbrook. Suddenly he vvithdrew from the "United Empire Party " returned all contributions to contributors (thus leaving Viscount Rotnermere holding an empty bag) and joined with Stanley Baldwin on the basis that "food taxes," a major feature of the Empire Free Trade" scheme, would be submitted to popular referendum by the Conservatives if returned to power (TIME, March 17). Tiring soon of slow Sheep Dog Baldwin, mercurial Baron Beaverbrook has recently resumed alliance with dynamic Viscount Rothermere. Congenial spirits, they hope to cut Mr. Baldwin's political throat, seize his party. At the Conservative meeting last week one-third...