Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defeat by the balloting of the American Student Union of the Harvard Student Union referendum to denounce Russia for its action in Finland was admitted last night by Alan S. Gottlieb '40, president of the H.S.U...
When the proposal was presented to the members of the H.S.U., citing as reason for condemnation the fact that the invasion was a "clearly unjustifiable act," the members approved by a vote of 115 to 65. The American Student Union objected to the referendum to the tune of 2101 votes against the H.S.U.'s action and only 943 in favor...
...another drive to have the much disputed Plan E adopted as the Cambridge city charter, a group of local citizens began circulating a petition yesterday providing for a referendum on the city-manager and proportional representative form of government in next November's elections...
Dean Landis accused the city fathers of "cheap politics" in opposing the plan, and the Council countered with a last minute attempt to keep the referendum off the ballots...
Leaders of the present drive for Plan E hope to eliminate the bitterness of the last referendum. Some of them expressed fear last night that the campaign for a city-manager charter would again arouse a bitter "town and gown" controversy, with professorial families lined up against Cambridge politicians...