Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student referendum showed 89% favoring a compulsory $1 fee to support the student-activities building. Students packed the galleries, but the House of Representatives refused to pass the compulsory...
Safely out of Idaho's fiscal dilemma now is former Governor Chase A. Clark, who had signed the Senior Citizen's initiative petition, put it on the ballot. Clark thus made himself his own victim. To be valid in Idaho, such a law passed by popular referendum must receive more than 50% of the total vote for Governor. So oldsters voted light for Governor, heavy for their pensions. Result: Clark lost by 434 votes, pensions...
...convention of Representatives of all free peoples to frame a Federal Constitution under which they may unite in a Democratic World Government?" Vote in favor of Democratic World Federation: 140,967. Against: 46,882. The fact that most of the local politicians running for office had opposed the referendum seems to prove Dr. Gallup's thesis: the public is usually far ahead of its political "leaders" in its thinking on most issues. Harvard Committee for Federal Union...
...Massachusetts is 40% Catholic, 75% to 80% of all the State's Catholics are Democrats. And with Catholic parishioners being ceaselessly urged to defeat the referendum, it was probable that the Democratic vote would be large even though the total vote would be relatively light. This made unpredictable a race that otherwise seemed in the G.O.P...
...Utah on Election Day the U.S. will learn whether one of the tides which reached flood stage in the depression of the '30s has finally begun to ebb. The big issue in Utah's election is Proposition No. 2, a referendum on post-depression's outstanding example of Stone Age economics: the most vindictive chain-store tax ever proposed. Not content with imposing a tax of $50 to $500 per store (on a graduated scale geared to the total number of stores owned by a chain all over the U.S.), the Utah bill also aims to embalm...