Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three months they set up an active organization and promoted a highly effective publicity campaign, gaining enough supporters to petition for a referendum on Plan E. But stubborn Councillors refused even to consider the petition. With balloting day imminent the Plan E Committee resorted to the courts...
Saturday was the crucial day. The 15 Councillors headed for Harvard Stadium to enjoy a football game, courtesy of the University. Fifteen deputies greeted them at their seats, with a warrant for each. Election day found the referendum on the ballot...
...number of politicians have never been satisfied with either Plan E or PR. They tried first to sabotage the city manager's program through the independents in Council. When this failed they switched their guns to PR. A confusingly-worded referendum against PR appeared on the ballot in 1952 but was voted down. The same confusing referendum appears this year--with brighter prospects...
Mary Ellen Reinert '54, Chairman of the Radcliffe News, had threatened to call for an all-College referendum if the--Council did not reconsider the 11 p.m. rule. A News poll last year showed a majority in favor...
...Shame!" That afternoon, the anti-Bricker forces rallied for one last fight in the assembly. Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, 33, Harvard's last All-America (guard, class of '42), World War II submarine officer and Boston lawyer, introduced a resolution calling for a referendum of all 50,000 A.B.A. members-in effect, a demand to see whether the membership would reverse the house of delegates. Striding down to a front-row mike, ex-President Holman angrily retorted: "You gentlemen just want to get your, names in the press." (Cried voices from the assembly floor: "Shame!") But a few minutes...