Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they did not capture Texas. In an attempt to get their candidates on the ballot they took full-page newspaper advertisements, pleaded that the whole Democrat-Dixiecrat problem be presented to the voters in a referendum. The Texas State Central Committee, dominated by Governor Beauford Jester, refused. The Dixiecrats still had hope-though their chances looked slim, they were hell-bent to get control of the Texas State Democratic Convention next month...
...searching last week. The Star unit of the Guild first tried to ignore the case, and the city-wide executive board of the Guild refused to go to bat for Communist Buchanan. But, just to be sure that it was speaking for its membership, the board called for a referendum vote on whether Communists can be fired simply for being Communists...
...went on record in favor of the expressed political aim of Walter P. Reuther's UAW-CIO: "the formation after the 1948 national elections of a genuine progressive political party" to speak for labor-liberal forces. Chapter rank-and-file opinion on this stand will be solicited through a referendum the new national board has been instructed to conduct...
Nightly Except Sunday. Movies have never been popular with the churchmen of Sioux Center. An outsider wanted to erect a theater in 1938, but a popular referendum stopped him. The youngsters took to driving the eleven miles to Orange City's Tulip Theatre. A year ago, the Sioux Center American Legion post leased the Town Hall for a nightly (except Sunday) movie. The resulting uproar split the town squarely down the middle. Merchants liked the trade it brought to town; some citizens thought it kept Sioux Center's youth off the highways. But the Ministerial Association...
Last Detail. Sioux Center's five-man town council ducked the issue, put it up for referendum. Once again, "Satan's tool" lost-by 61 votes. But that did not settle the matter. The Legion's lease ran until April 1, and the town council, which had leased the Town Hall to the Legion, was up for election before then. Meantime, the issue of a municipally owned light plant arose, and Sioux Center's high school team reached the semifinals in the state basketball tournament. In the excitement, the antimovie forces failed to line...