Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rooms. Shipyard wags began quipping about "Rainbow Rooms.'' Last week 22 women bounced into the union hiring hall, yipping for work, determined not to take no for an answer. Ed Rainbow got rid of them this time by explaining that the union was holding a national referendum on admitting women members. But at week's end it looked as if he could not hold the fort much longer...
Casey's confident backers say their boy will get plenty of votes from labor, New Dealers, and Willkie Republicans who prefer him to Lodge, and from Catholics to whom a Massachusetts birth-control referendum will be an added reason for voting...
...protested, and the Harvard chapter went so far as to stage a defiant meeting with Negro Philosopher Alain Locke as lecturer, Ohio State remained in Coventry-until Pearl Harbor. Then the fraternity's biggest chapter, at Columbia's Teachers College, led a revolt which forced a national referendum. Result: for keeping the color line: 20 chapters (mostly Southern); for repeal: 67 chapters, more than the necessary two-thirds...
...comment was on the humorous side. Leverett's dining hall resounded with the familiar strains of "Oh give me a home where the side orders roam, Where the soups and the meats are galore . . ." But at the same House, members were signing a serious petition calling for "a popular referendum on a matter that so vitally concerns our well-being...
...American Newspaper Guild last week became a straightforward newspaper union and gave up grinding leftish political axes. In a national referendum the Guild ousted its entire present administration-long accused of Communist fellow-traveling-by a nearly two-to-one vote...