Word: referendums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wets tried to press their advantage. Senator Bruce and Senator Edge would like a national referendum on prohibition. (It is doubtful if any legal way could be found to bring about such a referendum.) An apparently unusual event occurred?Senator Joseph T. Robinson, the Democratic leader, indorsed this idea. The current explanation of Mr. Robinson's support of the proposal is that he regards himself as a presidential candidate for 1928, and wants, to dodge the prohibition issue by a referendum or its promise...
What was interpreted as the opening of Senator Borah's campaign for the presidency in 1928 took place last week in Baltimore. The Senator addressed the Presbyterian General Assembly, discussed the demand of antiprohibitionists for a referendum and exclaimed...
...have, in the Empire state, been drawn to a head. Whereas the present concern with prohibition has been accentuated in all states by the Coolidge order bringing state officials into Federal revenue service, in New York there are two definite questions confronting the combatants. The one involves the popular referendum contemplated in that state. The other is the Senatorial campaign. And here the wets seem to have the master hand. For the leading Democrats are with them: while the present Republican incumbent, Senator Wadsworth, leans toward them. To turn their unpromising battle in an unpromising state into a crusade...
...what question will Germany soon hold a referendum...
Thoroughgoing Germans have already cast over ten million ballots in a preliminary "referendum referendum" (TIME, March 29), as a result of which the issue itself must be submitted to referendum within four weeks...