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Primary outlet for California's civic cranks and crazes is the "initiative" provision of the State's constitution. Under it 8% of California's registered electorate (this year 186,378 voters) can, by signing a petition, place a bill on the ballot to be enacted if a majority of voters approve...
...John Citizen." Pierce Atwater, executive secretary of St. Paul's Community Chest, declared: "We have allowed our system of public welfare administration to grow far too detached from the body of the citizenship who pay the bills and who drop their verdict into the ballot box." He urged that "the John Citizens of America" be put on relief boards, to leaven professional social workers and politicians...
...expected, Candidate Benson ran far ahead in city precincts, Candidate Petersen led in the schoolhouse vote. After two days of seesaw ballot-counting, Benson finally overtook Petersen for good, squeaked through, 215,000 to 202,000. The total Farmer-Labor primary vote was by far the highest in its history, more than the 253,000 Republican and 81,000 Democratic votes put together. So Laborite Benson's forces inferred that Farmerite Petersen had recruited much of his support from Republican and Democratic conservatives. This claim was supported by the fact that conservative Republican Martin Nelson, twice his party...
...failure to act threatens to convert it once more into a myth. Striking at the Corporation, it concluded: "Is the last word to the that which was spoken by Emerson in 1861--'Harvard College has no voice in Harvard College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot...
However, a grim reminder that German-Czech relations are still on edge met every voter at the polls. Alongside the ballot boxes stood collection boxes for Czechoslovakia's defense fund. Although the balloting in the rest of the country went on to a patriotic jingle of hellers, in the Sudeten area the vote was sullen, clinkless...