Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report is approved, the question of official association will be submitted to the student body for a general referendum "In the near future," Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, Council president, predicted last night. Although affiliation with the newly-organized group could be made by Council vote alone, Weld believes the move is of sufficient importance to warrant a College-wide ballot...
...father of nine children (the oldest, 40, the youngest, two), he has had a distinguished career as a lawyer and a militant Republican. His bill requiring labor unions to account publicly for their funds was the country's first to be approved by voters (in a state referendum last year...
...million federal appropriation to help Chicago build its first small rabbit-run of subway. He got it on condition that all the city's transportation facilities be unified-and improved. His city councilmen dutifully passed a unification plan. The plan was approved by voters in a referendum, by surface and elevated line bondholders, and by the federal court which had jurisdiction over the bankrupt operating companies. But in 1943 the Illinois Commerce Commission rejected Kelly's proposals as "unsound...
...Kelly did not intend to be thwarted again by the Commerce Commission. He went to Springfield and talked bipartisan turkey with Governor Dwight Green. Soon afterwards, in 1945, the state legislature passed a law setting up the Transit Authority. In another referendum, Chicago voters approved...
...collected $926,278 in dues, and $6,149,257 in assessments. Zealously democratic, it is self-governed by a two-party system of "Progressives" (now in office) and "Independents." Its finances are fully reported in the monthly Typographical Journal, and its assessments may be levied only after a national referendum. (In 1940, horrified when an A.F.L. convention dared to levy an anti-C.I.O. assessment on all members, the printers refused to pay, dropped out of the federation for two years...