plebiscite

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In Argentina's pro-Government press, ranging from pontifical La Naci�n to the Naziphile Pampero, there burgeoned last week a crop of paid advertisements announcing a "Plebiscite of Peace."

From Time Magazine Archive

If there is any man who really rules the little strip it is General John J. Pershing, President of the Plebiscite Commission, who is sitting tight in the little town of Arica.

From Time Magazine Archive

There, an old horse, forever paretically nodding yes-yes-yes, is named Plebiscite.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the Age which originated the idea of the Plebiscite, and of the progressive land-tax.

From Town Life in Australia by Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell

This club is usually presided over by M. Cernuschi, a banker, who was in bad odour with the Imperial Government for having subscribed a large sum for the electoral campaign against the Plebiscite.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry