plebiscite

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

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

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

Asked at Ellis Island what his nationality was a gloomy gentleman from Upper Silesia recently answered, "Plebiscite."

From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Graham, Stephen

By this Plebiscite, the prohibitionists of Canada have been given a privilege never enjoyed by any other nation, and they have used it well, but now the work is just begun.

From The Story of a Dark Plot or Tyranny on the Frontier by A.L.O. C.