Word: referendum
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Pepper said yesterday that he hoped his petition would force the House Committee to reverse its ruling or to sponsor a referendum on the issue. Dolberg indicated that if the petition contained enough names, he would permit a referendum, and would probably allow members without cards to vote in it. He expressed doubt, however, that the opposition forces could muster enough votes to overturn the amendment...
Probably the most significant action of the evening, however, was the voice vote to table a motion by Richard C. Minzner '65, an Adams House representative. He suggested a student referendum after the new Constitution is written to choose between the old HCUA, the new HUC and HPC, or nothing...
...referendum and initiative measures in dozens of states last week, none was more bitterly fought or attracted more attention than California's Proposition 14 to repeal the Rumford Act (TIME, Sept. 25). Californians, by a vote of 3,656,000 to 1,894,000, overwhelmingly approved the proposition...
...Voters in 23 states approved bond issues worth $2.2 billion in the second-largest borrowing referendum in history (see U.S. BUSINESS...
There was a lot of money riding on last week's elections. In the second largest borrowing referendum in history, voters in 23 states had to decide on proposed bond issues to raise more than $2.9 billion for new roads, airport terminals, schools, parks, subways, sea walls, water and sewer mains and urban renewal. Their decision: overwhelming approval of well over two-thirds of the bond issues, ranging from $1,500,000 for new firehouses in Omaha to $790 million for schools and parks in California. For the U.S. economy, the $2.2 billion in new state and local borrowing...