Word: referendums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ratified. Since then it has suffered steady reverses; the legislatures of Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana declined to ratify it. This is not surprising, since the South has usually been backward in the regulation of child labor. Then, in the general election on Nov. 4, it was placed in referendum before the people of Massachusetts. They voted against it 3 to 1. This referendum was'merely advisory and is not binding on the Legislature although it practically insures the rejection of the Amendment by the Legislature. The National Association of Manufacturers was active in urging its defeat. So was part...
...labor, the assembling of the organization which should handle the award, the determination of its exact conditions, the receipt of the aspiring plans (22,000 odd) their perusal by the jury of award, the announcement of the winning plan (its author remained unknown), the beginning of a great popular referendum...
...Four years ago, the same amendment was vetoed by popular referendum...
Walt Whitman called it "the Presidential". Woodrow Wilson referred to it as a "great and solemn referendum". The average voter, whoever he may be, looks on it as a recognition of his own importance. The cynic may think it a waste of good time and money, but the patriot leaps to the ballot box with an unholy joy shining...
...foreign policy and promised if he was elected to inaugurate a foreign policy based on: 1) open diplomacy; 2) no profiteering in case of war; 3) paying for war out of current revenues so that there will be no after debt; 4) no annexation of territory; 5) referendum on declaring war; 6) cooperation of all nations to reduce all armaments to defensive proportions; 7) no dollar diplomacy...