Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thunderous shout of approval. An overwhelming 80% of French voters plumped for his version of the Fifth Republic. In De Gaulle's home village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, where the Premier was an early-morning voter at the town hall, 'the count on his referendum was oui, 195; non, 1. De Gaulle telephoned friends in Paris to assure them he was not the dissident voter...
...Harvard Liberal Union this week endorsed the principle of Harvard membership in the National Student Association, and gave hearty approval to the proposed referendum on the issue...
...told the deans and our subscribers that we would not publish this Thursday because we were busy collecting money for subscriptions all week," she said. Miss Papps predicted that the next issue would state whether the News can continue functioning without compulsory subscriptions, abolished in a student referendum last spring...
...success of a Student Council proposal for a subsidy from the Dean's Office may depend largely on the results of the forthcoming Council referendum, Dean Watson stated yesterday. Besides the student body's decision on the referendum, the Dean's Office would want to have an indication of "student interest" in the Council before taking action on the proposal...
Commenting on the referendum, which provides that one-third of the members be appointed rather than elected, Watson said that he thought this arrangement would contribute toward "a stronger Council," that "a purely elected Council is likely to be purely political," and for this reason would be less likely to be subsidized by the Administration...