Word: referendums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Committee decided that the question should be submitted to a referendum of the class, considering this to be the best way of obtaining the general sentiment of the class. Ballots on which views may be expressed will be sent to every member of the class, probably on Monday...
This change in the former arrangements came as a result of a referendum recently sent to all the leading colleges of the east. It was further decided to break the conference up into two groups, one, composed of colleges from the Middle Atlantic States to meet in Eaglesmere, Pa., and the other, of the New England colleges, in the Northfield. The Eaglesmere conference will begin five days earlier than the Northfield gathering on account of the earlier examinations in the Middle Atlantic colleges...
Meanwhile the Communists and the Socialists "stole" with all possible energy. They accomplished the first stage of what their enemies call "a gigantic legal theft" by whooping up 10,000,000 Germans to cast ballots calling for a national referendum (TIME, March 15) on the question of whether property belonging to the former German nobility and seized by the Republic may be retained without compensating the original owners...
Since only 4,000,000 ballots were needed to cause the referendum to be held, its protagonists are jubilant. None the less they must roll up 20,000,000 ballots to gain the final victory...
...rank and property strangely incongruous in a socialist republic. Capitalists who dread Socialism will then sigh with relief to find their worst bugbear so completely discounted in Germany. And political students who question the strength of Republican sentiment in Germany will have their doubts settled by the greatest popular referendum since Napoleon III staged his coup d'etat...