Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daily paper to carry stories on the building, and with no difficulty, managed to have the bond issue passed. When it was discovered that the original figure was too low, the Board by these same methods garnered an even higher percentage of votes in the second bond issue referendum...
About six miles away, however, the city of Mount Vernon has been trying for seven years to swing a referendum to build one large, or two smaller high schools. Within this period, the school board has held four referenda, each of which has been voted down, following an active campaign on the part of a non-parent citizens group claiming that the structure cost too much (and as each year passes the costs rise). In the last referendum in December, the organization also cried that the referendum, was scheduled during the week preceeding Christmas purposely to garner a small...
...Assembly must authorize his government to draw up a new constitution -which will be submitted to popular referendum...
...Salt Lake City, teachers clamored for a "leeway" referendum to allow the school board to add 5 mills to property taxes, lost badly after a campaign that degenerated into a dogfight between pressure groups, with teachers opposing the Chamber of Commerce and citizens' committees. Observers felt that the recession weighed only lightly in the defeat. Out of several such leeway referendums in Utah this year, only one has succeeded; yet all bond issues for new school buildings have passed. The difference: much of the leeway money would go to across-the-board teachers' pay raises. A study...
...built merger, the Hashemite Kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan last week brought forth a new constitution conceived in careful wisdom and dedicated to the proposition that member nations of the new Arab Federation are best treated equals. By late April both countries will have held elections amounting to a referendum on their federation. Then Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal, as chief of the federal state, will appoint a premier to name a federal cabinet, and the Arab Federation will be in business...