Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last in a series of anti-climaxes, the decision of the Student Council to proceed with its pocket ratification of the new Constitution appears to be a poor but necessary expedient. Certainly the members of this year's Council may view the referendum as a favorable mandate; the lack of full voting can only be taken as the last vestige of a diseased relationship between this group and the student body, a relationship that the new constitution will attempt to improve...
Weld said that the main feature of the forums will be a straw ballot on the elective-appointive proportions issue, and the House and class method of representation on the Council. The ballots will also seek to determine whether students consider a referendum necessary to the ratification of the completed document...
Moreover, three states-Arizona, Nebraska and South Dakota-had voted constitutional amendments to bar the closed shop. Labor-strong Massachusetts had approved a "union responsibility" referendum, requiring unions to make public financial reports of dues, officers' salaries, fees, etc. The public's attitude was unmistakable: it had had enough of labor recklessness and abuses of its rights, and enough of inflation-puffing strikes. It had, in effect, voted out a pro-labor Government and voted in one which it hoped would hold labor as responsible as management...
When the student referendum at Harvard last spring voted support for a delegate to an International conference, it gave promise of beginning a new era in student affairs. Up to that time University Hall had frowned on student attempts to participate in national organizations--not to speak of international ones. Certainly there are grave dangers attached to such participation. Professional leadership, partisan domination, and even outright graft have often corrupted the high ideals with which student organizations have been formed in the past. It is a basic weakness, resulting from the nature of student life which has time for only...
...newly formed Student Federalists Regional Council for Now England, which was the name the Interstudent Council adopted, resolved to lend their efforts towards getting a favorable vote on referendum number one in Massachusetts elections. The referendum puts the state on record for strengthening the United Nations in the direction of a world government...