Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of tentative dividing lines would meet separately to pick an electoral college which would register its choice. Punjab Sikhs would be split if the Punjab split. In the North-West Frontier Province, where the Congress Party controls the Government but 93% of the population is Moslem, a popular referendum would be held. The likely choice: Pakistan. Bengal, with its rich industrial nucleus of Calcutta, might choose to stand apart as a separate nation, part Moslem, part Hindu...
...last year the state of New Jersey slipped him a disturbingly potent mickey -it put voting machines into Hoboken. The effect was electrifying. Some of McFeely's cops, angry at having been directed to waive their overtime pay during World War II, campaigned for a civil service referendum. It passed. After that, Hoboken's long-suffering citizens began to think of throwing off their shackles...
That was what happened in traditionally conservative Sicily. In last year's referendum on the monarchy, 68% of the Sicilian peasants had voted for the King. In regional elections last week, 34.5% of the voters cast their ballots for the Left. The Christian Democrats were second with 20%, the Qualunquist-Monarchist bloc third with 14%; the rest of the votes went to minor parties. This foreshadowed a Communist-Socialist majority in the national elections next October...
...approval for a record $671,900,000 in expenditures, highest in the state's history. Recognizing the need for higher salaries for teachers, he adopted a new scale which was the highest in the nation (but still somewhat less than the teachers had asked). He approved a referendum on a veterans' bonus which would cost the state $400 million, plus interest...
...push through the legislature a bill that would give Boston the same right. In spite of a defeat last year in the legislature, the President of the League holds high hopes for her bill this year. She points out that before the legal red tape of petition and referendum can be brushed aside three years will have clapsed. Curley's term as mayor will have expired, so that Plan E cannot be damned in Boston by Placing an anti-Curley label...