Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time. It was the Farm Bureau, biggest of the U.S. farm organizations with 1,628,295 families, that was chiefly responsible for defeating the Administration's program of stringent controls last May with the slogan, "Freedom v. Freeman." Buoyed by its victory in the referendum and bulging with 20,790 new member families since then, the bureau still is vigorously pressing its demands for a complete Government retreat from the farm field...
Last May, the U.S. wheat growers about to vote in a referendum on the Kennedy Administration's high-subsidy program for mandatory production controls, Washington Democrats issued some you'd-better, or-else threats. If the wheat producers turned down the program, their income would suffer - and the Administration vowed that it would not back any sort of substitute program to help them out. "Let them stew in their own juice," snapped an Agriculture Department official...
Over 110 'Cliffies have signed petitions requesting RGA to hold a college wide referendum on the controversial issue of sophomore sign-out rules. This is over four times the 25 signatures required by the RGA constitution for such a referendum...
...referendum could probably be held until after Christmas vacation. The date for such a vote will most likely be set at the meeting of the executive committee Monday night or at the RGA meeting Thursday...
...uncertain what the results of a referendum would be. On the one hand, sophomores throughout the college were reported up in arms over the RGA decision. Helen S. Garvy '64, who introduced the motion, predicted Thursday that a referendum would reverse the RGA vote, which, she said, "certainly does not reflect the general feeling in the college...