Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months, the sturdy Peasant leader had been silent; he was determined, despite Communist pressure, to stay in the Government until the people had a chance to speak at the polls. But last week, his back to the wall, less than a month before the referendum in which Poles would be asked to approve the present regime's policies, Mikolajczyk finally exploded...
...editors had scheduled a definitive story on the French Communist Party some time ago, but the story would not come into sharp focus until after the vote on France's constitutional referendum. Three weeks ago France gave the answer, and Charles Wertenbaker, chief of our Foreign News Service, alerted his Paris bureau...
Most foreign observers in Formosa agreed that if a referendum were taken today Formosans would vote for U.S. rule. Second choice-Japan...
...freight trains instead of Christmas baskets, and, like Tammany, it worked. Thorez presided at the opening of the glassworks and Albi greeted him as its savior. His fame spread from Albi through the Department of Tarn. Result: once-conservative Tarn was almost evenly divided in last month's referendum vote...
...until two weeks before the referendum, most French politicians unwittingly played Thorez' game by blandly pretending that they believed in the C.P.'s essential patriotism. But now French politics was warming up. Last week Socialist Interior Minister André Le Troquer, a one-armed veteran cried...