Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON editor of October 5 is himself guilty of the charge he mistakenly levels at the Catholic Church--that of misrepresenting the birth control referendum issue...
...wealth of publicity of the Presidential campaign has obscured one of the most controversial and misrepresented issues in Massachusetts politics of the last decade. Out of the Birth Control Referendum, which will appear as question number four on November's ballot, has grown a bitter fight over separation of church and state...
...followed by the closing of all the clinics. Thus Massachusetts became one of the two states in the Union where contraceptive advice is outlawed. In 1942 a bill sponsored by the Planned Parenthood League was introduced into the Legislature. Defeated there, it was placed before the voters as a referendum and turned down...
...referendum the proposed legislation will appear once again on the ballot in November. It proposes that the law "which makes it an offense to advertise or give information as to the procurement of means for the prevention of pregnancy or conception shall not apply to treatment or prescription given to married women by registered physicians for the protection of life or health." It is, therefore, purely a permissive and actually a medical measure. Unfortunately it has been turned into a religious issue through the opposition of the Catholic Church...
...state a bigger share of the city's income (sales tax, cigarette tax, revenue from horse racing), Earl's legislature has cut $3,000,000 of New Orleans revenue. It has ordered the city to readopt the aldermanic form of government (which New Orleans abandoned by referendum in 1912), thus robbing the mayor of almost all power...