Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong support of EDC-or did he? "The nation must accept the treaty," said he. But he promptly added: "[It] must, if necessary, be referred to the country." Perhaps the Foreign Minister was merely doing some more weaving through the thickets, but perhaps he was hinting of a national referendum, a new and surefire way to stall the treaty for many more months...
...Referendum. In Holly Springs, Miss., Police Chief Jimmie Warren explained why the streets are lined with unused marking meters: "A good salesman sold he city the meters, but they are very unpopular. By common consent, nobody puts a coin in and nobody gets a ticket...
Time, too, was running out on Hurst. With the next Council meeting scheduled for March 2, there would not have been time enough to hold a College-wide referendum and present it to the Faculty Committee on Athletics before the end of the basketball season on March...
Northern Buffer. Now the British House of Commons must approve, on behalf of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and a referendum must be held in Southern Rhodesia, where some of the whites oppose Lyttelton's safeguards as "cotton-woolling" the blacks.* Sir Godfrey is sure that his plan will be accepted. One advantage of a united Rhodesia: if Prime Minister Malan detaches South Africa from the Crown as a Boer Republic, Britain will still have a strong bulwark on Malan's northern frontier...
After six years of haggling, the four major parties in the Danish Parliament agreed on the text of a constitutional amendment to allow the ascension of a woman to the throne. If passed by both Parliament and popular referendum, which is likely, 12-year-old Princess Margrethe will be heiress presumptive (in the place of her uncle Prince Knud, 52-year-old brother of King Frederik), with the possibility of becoming the first Danish queen since Margrethe I (1353-1412), a precocious sovereign who made bright Danish history. Margrethe I became the 10-year-old child bride of King Haakon...