Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Cudahy, 55, heir to meat packing millions, onetime Ambassador to Belgium; of a broken neck when his horse threw him ; on his estate near Milwaukee, Wis. He retired from diplomacy after the Nazis came to Belgium, campaigned for America First and a referendum on war. Six months before Pearl Harbor he got an exclusive interview with Hitler, whom he detested...
...Nazi short-wave Zeesen station frenetically begged Afrikaners to repudiate the Smuts Government and the war. Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts told his people the election was a referendum on South Africa's will to fight on with the United Nations to victory (TIME, July 12). The issue clear, South Africans last week stampeded to the polls...
...election day, Smuts's supporters were highly optimistic: Government newspapers were giving Smuts's United Party between 100 and 110 of Parliament's 150 seats. Prime Minister Smuts thought he smelled complacency, told his people the election would be a referendum on the war issue in which every vote would count. Then he said something most South Africans hated to hear: "I want the coming election fight to be final, for this old horse is now running its last race...
Another time, when the peace referendum issue was before Congress, May knew a direct question would net zero results (the President tries never to discuss legislation in process). She asked: "Mr. President, do you regard a peace referendum as consonant with a representative form of government?" To neither question did she get an answer. To the last she got a question: did she stay up all night thinking it up? Answered May: "I did." May Craig got into newspapering in 1923 by helping her late husband Don Craig (then Washington reporter for the old New York Herald) with a sideline...
When Mayor Ed Kelly wangled an $18,000,000 PWA appropriation in 1938 to help build a subway, one of the strings attached was the unification of all city transportation facilities. His City Council passed a unification plan, voters adopted it 10-to-1 in a referendum. All bondholders approved the plan; so did the Federal Court which handles the receivership proceedings...