Word: referendum
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...frankly hostile squeeze play, the schoolteachers of the U.S. are battling the voters of the state of Oklahoma to get more state aid for education. A month ago, in a referendum, the electorate decisively defeated a 10 boost in the state sales tax (presently 20 per dollar) that would have raised Oklahoma's niggardly education outlays. Encouraged by what it believes to be a significant victory in its recent boycott of Utah, the 940,000-member National Education Association responded by undertaking to strip Oklahoma of teachers. Teachers are being helped to move to other jobs...
Last November California voters, spurred on by movie-theater owners and commercial-TV interests, clobbered pay TV in their state. In a referendum, they turned thumbs down on the right of Subscription Television Inc. to use public-utility telephone lines. To STV President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver this seemed an outrageous violation of the First Amendment, a curtailment of freedom of speech. He filed suit, and last week the California superior court agreed with...
Murphy's surprise victory, most observers say, was the result of an issue on which he refused to take a stand: the explosive referendum on Proposition 14. This amendment to the state constitution (which was approved easily) was designed to cancel all laws against discrimination in real estate transactions. Many Republican candidates enlisted in the lavishly-financed campaign in favor of 14, with its mixture of private enterprise rhetoric and barely disguised racism. Others, like Murphy, kept quiet and let the voters guess at their personal sentiments...
Reaction from the Boston School committee to the 140-page report was shift and highly negative. Mrs. Louise Hicks, the chairman, said yesterday that she was "appalled" at the idea students to achieve racial balance. She and her colleague, committeeman William O'Connor, urged a public referendum to resolve the issue...
...bishops in Rome." De Pauw hinted that these theological liberals were also flirting with heresy by downgrading the authority of the Pope and devotion to Mary. To counteract these tendencies, he said, his movement is urging the bishops to limit the number of vernacular Masses and take a national referendum on Catholic opinion about the liturgical changes...