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...House floor last week, Manhattan's Congressman Frederic Rene Coudert Jr. offered an amendment to the Defense Appropriation Bill. Its purpose, as Republican Coudert explained it, was "to prevent another Korea ... by any President who chooses ... to bypass the Congress in committing the people of the U.S. to great and bloody wars...
...applicants, no matter how high their scores, who do not have wartime military records. Disabled veterans automatically rate the top of the list. Although many state jobs require little skill, certain others, such as highway engineer, demand considerable aptitude and training. In these instances, Massachusetts may be forced to bypass more qualified men in hiring the highest ranking veterans. Today, when nearly all applicants are veterans, the law makes little difference; in ten years, such a preference system may mean a real loss in administrative efficiency...
...Nowadays, by derivation, Cumberland also means the wire-jumper used by some Haitians to bypass electric meters and thereby shortcut the bills from the U.S.-owned power company...
Twenty years before the American Revolution, George Washington saw the need for East-West water transport up the Potomac Valley; after the war he became president of the Potomac Company, which built canals and locks to bypass falls and shoals in the Potomac River itself. The waterway eventually became the famed Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and by the mid 1800s, its mule-drawn canal boats hauled great tonnages of freight between Washington and Cumberland, Md. But over the next 100 years, the railroads forced it into disuse...
Wrote Goldwyn: "I believe the time has come ... to bring the Production Code up to date . . . Today there is a far greater maturity among the audiences than there was 25 years ago . . . Unless the code is brought reasonably up to date, the tendency to bypass it, which has already begun, will increase. This can lead to excesses...