Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--Six Senate non-interventionists today jointly sponsored a proposal to require a national referendum before Congress could authorize or appropriate money for use of the armed forces outside the Western Hemisphere...
...referendum plan would require only a majority vote of both House and Senate. It would not call for any action by the President. It would direct Congress to call a "national advisory election" when and if it was faced with the question of sending land, naval or airforces outside this hemisphere...
...Teachers Union's quickwitted President Robert K. Speer recited a long list of democratic achievements by his local, demanded that the council itself show cause why his local should be ousted. Instead the council held perfunctory hearings, recommended that the locals be expelled, submitted its recommendation to a referendum of the Federation's 28,000 members, to be held within three months...
Although revoking the charters, the Executive Committee has put the question up to the 40,000 members of the Federation through a referendum, to be conducted this spring. This is a bit of political juggling by the Committee, for a simple majority of members will uphold their decision, whereas, if the question were brought up at the annual convention this summer, a two-thirds majority would be required to oust the three unions...
...local can do nothing as a unit, but each of the 100 members will got one vote in the referendum. It is likely that a wide majority of the membership of the union will vote against the decision of the Federation executives and in favor of the three contested unions, judging from the telegram which was sent to the Chicago meeting...