Word: referendums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballot to be voted November seventh, together with a list of candidates, will appear four referendum questions. "Referendum Question No. 3" is on the censorship of moving pictures...
...administration has an adequate majority in the Senate. Futile hindrances and delays on the part of Senator Borah and his followers, however, will eliminate the tremendous prestige that would be given to the treaties if confirmed immediately. Swift ratification would have much the effect of a great approving public referendum on the work of the conference, and the influence of immediate ratification on other countries can hardly be over-estimated. On the other hand a long drawn-out discussion would have a tendency to destroy confidence in the pact. With this in view it behooves the Administration to force...
...referendum taken by the American Council of Education in May 1921, showed that its members were in favor of the bill. There are other factors which point out the beneficial results a national Department of Education could give Experiences during the war show that Americanization is a slow process; the Towner-Sterling Bill would help that situation by appropriating $7,500,000 for such work. A similar sum to be used for the training of native-born illiterates, and 50 millions for the equalization of opportunities in public, elementary, and secondary schools, would surely do good. This, and the industrial...
...people about the question? It is unfortunately true that when any such proposition is before the public mind, sentiment is the most influential in determining its opinion. The sentiment behind giving World War Veterans a present is very nice; from this and other evidence one may conclude that a referendum would see the bonus favored by the majority...
This small group of men are attacking the policy of secret diplomacy and are opposed to a treaty which has been rejected twice as a subject of national referendum before the people. They are confronted by the power of the oil interests, all of which are in favor of the treaty. Then also the power of patronage is never so great as at the beginning of an administration, when a new president asks that a treaty be ratified. Nevertheless the minority senators are fighting on the side of the American people in preventing the secret passage of a "blackmail" treaty...