Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in four years. However, the Department of Agriculture's official estimate of a 2,566,221,000 bu. 1938 corn crop meant that the harvest (plus the carryover) will be 27,000,000 bu. short of an "excessive supply"; hence there will be no referendum to give farmers an opportunity to get marketing quotas imposed. Third item last week on the Department of Agriculture's busy calendar was its estimate of an 11,988,000-bale cotton crop, 7,000,000 bales below 1937's bumper yield, but 700,000 bales above the average unofficial...
...smooth-running in Mr. Ickes' pump house, however. With two mayors at opposite ends of the land he was having trouble. Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco had only with difficulty been persuaded to move up from November to September a bond issue referendum to enable San Francisco, with PWA help, to buy the Hetch Hetchy power lines. And Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of Boston was, to Mr. Ickes' way of thinking, being extremely annoying in the matter of Boston's new city hall. Granted $1,125,000 toward this edifice, Mayor Tobin turned it down, instead...
...bales, had to fall back on Government loans, wound up with a carry-over sufficient to depress this year's prices. So Mr. Wallace invoked the powers-granted him in the new AAA, instituted drastic control, got a majority of farmers to approve by referendum. Last week Mr. Wallace's analysts announced the result: a cultivated acreage of 26,904,000, lower than any since the Department of Agriculture began to keep tabs in 1909, and a prospective crop of about 12,000,000 bales (unofficially indicated, because Federal law prohibits official bale forecasts before August...
Fortnight ago organizations of U. S. Jews were bitterly at odds over a demand by Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise and his American Jewish Congress for a referendum on whether an all-inclusive agency should be formed to defend Jews' rights. Last week 38 grave Jewish leaders, called together by Merchant Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, assembled in Pittsburgh to talk over a compromise. By day's end they had found one, which was quickly ratified by the four big organizations-American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Labor Committee and B'nai B'rith. They agreed to form...
...engineering articles. Between 1927 and 1934, A. S. M. E. lost $215,000 on the index. Last week, in New York Supreme Court, Justice William H. Black said he would appoint a referee to decide whether certain members of the council were liable for this loss, ordered a referendum of the society to see if it thought the index was a good idea, seized the opportunity to abuse Mr. Schwab and these associates: "Inconceivable ignorance . . . flagrant instance of inattention . . . heedlessness of duty. . . ." Reason for Justice Black's fury was their inability to remember what happened. "Rip Van Winkling," said...