Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authority of the Lithuanian people who have spoken in a solemn referendum," replied the Russian spokesman...
Plan E cleared its initial hurdle yesterday afternoon when Dean Landis of the Law School filed Cambridge City Clerk a petition signed by 9,078 local voters, making mandatory a referendum next November on the proposal for proportional representation and a city-manager form of government...
With the failure of Alan Gottlieb's referendum for an A.S.U. condemnation of Stalin's Finnish rape comes a crisis in the affairs of the Harvard Student Union. Will it cling to the coattails of discredited fellow members in the Communist-dominated American Student Union? Or will it cut loose from the national body and steer by its own star...
...answer would appear obvious. Yet the H.S.U. hesitates to take the step which last fall it implied it would take should the Gottlieb referendum fail to go through. The advantages of national unity seem to have influenced yesterday's decision to remain within the Red pale. But these organizational "advantages" consist principally of Communist selected literature and speakers--a negligible return for the fifty cents out of every dues dollar, which the H.S.U. annually pays its national affiliate. And the disadvantages of continued A.S.U. connections are enormous. Intangible but still real is the question of lost prestige on the Harvard...
...officers of the H.S.U. do not feel that its position in the A.S.U. has been weakened at all, because the vote was democratic on a problem of great interest. In the vote at New York, the H.S.U. more firmly made clear their position on the condemnation referendum...