Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, has been with the HCUA since its beginnings. Disgusted by the scandals and petty politics that poisoned the old Council in its final years, and unconvinced of the need for any kind of student government, more than two thirds of the student body failed to vote in the referendum on the HCUA constitution. It is doubtful that more people would vote in a refrendum today, unless it would be to banish the Council altogether...
...move to override Gov. Peabody's veto of the PR-referendum bill fell one vote short of victory yesterday in the state Senate...
...bill--which would allow a Cambridge referendum this November on proportional representation--will be reconsidered today. Unless two-thirds of the Senators present vote against the Governor, however, the measure will be dead for the rest of this legislative session...
Although Crane said that the result of a referendum "would be unpredictable," McKenna predicted that PR would be defeated by 1000 votes. In a 1961 referendum--the most recent of four--PR won by 502 votes...
...find a big public demand for this referendum. It looks to me as if its supporters just want to take over the city government," he said. "After 22 years some people have what I call a political hunger...