Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More embarrassing than Senate orations to Franklin Roosevelt was a proposal of twelve Senators with Wisconsin's cherubic La Follette as their spokesman, who introduced a modification of 1937's defeated war-referendum amendment to the Constitution which would effectively shackle the Administration with diplomatic handcuffs...
...year ago the Administration managed by only 21 votes in the House to beat the proposal by Indiana's Louis Ludlow that the Constitution be altered to require, except in case the U. S. was invaded, a national referendum before Congress could declare war on a foreign power. As revised by the twelve Senators, the proposed amendment would take from Congress the power to declare war except in case of "attack by armed forces, actual or immediately threatened" upon U. S. territory or upon "any country in the Western Hemisphere" threatened by a non-American nation...
...lost their second major battle with the tax ogre. First such battle was over the proposed California chain-store tax in 1936, which the chains defeated by a mighty publicity and advertising campaign. Colorado has had a chain-store tax since 1934 and last week it came up for referendum. Despite another mighty publicity and advertising barrage, Colorado voted No to repeal...
...Braun put on a good show-radio programs, contests, personal conciliation of Colorado farmers, etc. He was handicapped by the fact that Colorado voters were overwhelmingly primed to vote No to most of the other referendum questions on the ballot...
...claims that the recent outburst is "more than a tempest in a teapot" resulting from the local politicians' desire to protect their system from the inroads of the type of scientific municipal government recently sponsored by Dean Landis in the Plan E charter referendum...