Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their program includes support of a popular war referendum amendment to the Constitution "to take the war-making power out of Congress and put it into the hands of the people," the statement said...
Barred from taking part in Mr. Kerl's referendum (over age) thought I would reassure him through editors of TIME that if, when and as, I am elected Senator of the U. S. from the State of N. Y., his life would be much safer in my deliberations than those of my two sons; one of age and the other longing for and about...
Politicians asked each other in whispers whether Bigelow could summon up enough referendum votes to make him a prospective candidate for Governor. Said his campaign director, Charles H. Hubbell: "The amendments will be approved at the polls and then the people of Ohio will elect as their Governor the man who conceived them...
Tobacco's bad year followed a good year. Last December, when tobacco growers were called to a crop-control referendum, they had just finished disposing of a big (800-million-pound) crop at the satisfying average price of 22? per pound. They sneered at the compulsory quotas Henry Wallace wanted them to vote and proceeded to plant a far greater acreage this year than quota allotments would have permitted. Fine weather favored the growing, and up sprouted 1,014,000,000 pounds of fat tobacco, 200 million pounds more than a maximum year's consumption...
...said crafty Henry Wallace, none of this would be done unless farmers vote for a compulsory quota (660,000,000 pounds) in the October 5 referendum...