Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rent control referendum was begun by the radical Cambridge Peace and Freedom Party. Among the three official sponsors of the measure is Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy and a leading supporter of the SDS position during last April's crisis at Harvard...
...member of the referendum group estimated that somewhat over half the 9000 signatures were collected in door-to-door canvassing throught Cambridge during the past two months, and the remain der from stands in Harvard and Central Squares...
Though styled a "referendum" by its sponsors, the action is legally known as an "initiative petition," since the ordinance which is it proposes initiates with private citizens and has never been before the City Council...
...rent control referendum, has exchanged sharp words over the past months with the Cambridge Housing Convention, the other group pushing for rent control in the City...
...referendum group has derided the less radical housing convention for addressing its request for rent control to the City Council which the rent control referendum views as a tool of Cambridge landlords, Harvard, M.I.T., and the Federal government...