Word: referendums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon the teetering of this great referendum depended the disposition of property valued at well over 5,000,000,000 gold marks...
...German people, through popular initiative and referendum, decree the following...
...mainstays of the state will collapse if this referendum is successful in its plan to expropriate the former royalties without compensation...
...have consecrated my life service to the kings of Prussia and the former kaisers. I consider this referendum a great injustice. It shows a lack of sentiment for German traditions...
...Communists deemed the Fascists hogs because the latter demand the return to members of the German nobility of property seized from them by the German Republic. The Fascists flayed the "Communist robbers" because they are whooping up German voters to ballot, on June 20, in a national referendum (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.) which-if 20,000,000 votes are cast-will confirm and legalize the Republic's seizures of property. In the Prussian Landtag, both Communists and Fascists grunted and howled when Herr Hőpker-Aschoff, Prussian Minister of Finance, attempted an "impartial" speech as follows: "While...