Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French voters will elect a National Assembly. Through a referendum they will also answer two key questions: 1) Shall the new Assembly draft a constitution for a Fourth Republic? 2) If so, shall the Provisional Government (presumably De Gaulle's) continue to exercise full power while the constitution is being drafted...
Cried Léon Jouhaux's C.G.T.: De Gaulle's action was "authoritarian." Then, setting what might well be the leftist electoral line, it called on Frenchmen and Frenchwomen to vote "no" to the second question in the referendum...
...smashed the grip which the Southern Pacific had long held on California politics. After his victory, his father, the railroad's attorney, refused to speak to him for ten years. Hi Johnson, the rebel, went on to establish workmen's compensation, woman suffrage, the initiative, referendum and recall. In 1912 he entered national politics when he bolted the G.O.P. with Teddy Roosevelt...
...Belgians to uphold Parliament's decree of banishment in a national referendum. The issue would not be the monarchy, but Leopold. Three years hence, Leopold's son Prince Baudouin, 15, if he grew up of a sufficiently royal figure to fit the battered royal throne, would presumably become King of the Belgians...
...President] thought that if he were elected he could say that the people at a solemn referendum had voted him a blank cheque to control our world relations without Congress. . . . Does the Times really think that an affirmative two-thirds vote of the United States Senate could be obtained for this fantastic scheme...