Word: referendums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next, Newton D. Baker rose and offered an amendment to the League of Nations plank, which proposed immediate entry into the League without a referendum, as proposed in the majority report...
Delegate Alfred Lucking of Michigan, a lawyer of Henry Ford, came forward to argue for the majority League plank, saying: "If we provide for this referendum and lift the question out of politics, we will get 80% of the vote." Senator Jones of New Mexico spoke in the same tenor as the hall gradually emptied. The Senator's time ran out and he was stopped, the crowd applauding...
...paternal prefect immediately ordered a referendum of the worried families of the 260,000 schoolchildren of Paris. The present school-hours are 8:30 to 11:30 a. m. and 1 to 4 p. m. Was the hour and a half lunch-hour satisfactory to the mama and papa or little Jacques or Suzanne? Where papa was a workman he said "Mais non!" He came home at 12. Why should his children come home half an hour earlier? The working classes voted solidly for a 12 to 2 lunch-hour, giving papa a chance to see his child...
...conference, Rumanian Rascanul insisted that Russia recognize the Bessarabian frontiers, as defined by Rumania, before discussing any other points. Russian Krestinsky proposed a plebiscite in the territory to determine whether or not the population upholds the Rumanian regime. This referendum proposal was referred to Bucharest and promptly refused by the Bratiano Cabinet. The Vienna Conference came to an abrupt...
...Peace Award completed its referendum on the winning plan-providing for conditional entrance into the League of Nations (TIME, Feb. 11) - with a total vote of 610,558. There were 534,177 votes (87 1/2%) in favor of the plan; 76,381 (12 1/2%) opposed. In the event that the Committee of Award considers 534,177 votes to be "sufficient popular response," Dr. Charles H. Levermore (TIME, Feb. 11) will be presented with a second $50,000 cheque...