Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staked much and lost. The district, on Paris' Left Bank, includes a cross section of all France-shopkeepers, concierges, the Latin Quarter's students, Grenelle's workingmen. When the death of a Deputy forced a special election, every party accepted it as the first major referendum since last year's national election, and committed its full forces-all but Poujade, who asked his followers to boycott the election. It proved to be the most riotous campaign in 20 years. There were bombings, street fights and sluggings between rightists and Communists, Poujadists and Radicals, as 23 candidates...
...petition called for a referendum on the appointments and was found last week to contain 11,023 valid signatures. It was given to the committee by the city clerk last week to be voted upon "immediately...
...consideration. The bill's sponsor, state representative Alexander J. Cella '51, says, "It has a good chance of passage." This is a long range forecast, however, as the legal process required for such an amendment includes the passage of the bill by two successive legislatures and a state wide referendum...
...ammendment is passed by the committee, it still would require a minimum of about four years to become part of the state constitution, since it must pass two successive sessions of the state legislature and a referendum...
...promised Tuesday night, Judson T. Shaplin '42, assistant dean of the School of Education, got his referendum under way yesterday to annul the 17 appointments made last week by the Cambridge School Committee...