Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unusual trio-Andrew William Mellon, William Morgan Butler and Will H. Hays-whom Inquisitor Walsh assembled one morning last week for examination. In 1923, Mr. Hays had tried to pass some of Harry Ford Sinclair's oily bonds to Mr. Mellon and Mr. Butler, in return for cash for the G. O. P. deficit. They had declined. But in the four subsequent years, long after all knew of Sinclair's crockery and all during the Senate's efforts to unearth it, none of the trio had breathed a word of the sly Hays plan...
...salaries for the Governor General and other officials and pay for "advisers" desired by Governor General Stimson in addition to his regular Cabinet. Lawyer Gabaldon's objection was based in the familiar phrase, "Taxation without representation." He thought the Philippine legislature, when it meets, should be allowed to pass on these expenditures of island taxes. In general, the Gabaldon revolt is against the dilatory, if not reactionary trend of U. S. Philippine policy since 1899, when Dr. Jacob G. Schurman, president of the first Philippine Commission, construed the U. S. policy to be for "continuously expanding liberty to issue...
...debating is another matter, and the innovation adopted by Coach Rowe has merited a front-page notice in the Post. A training-table for the debating team has a certain piquant novelty: it is fraught with delightful possibilities for the time when the conservative orators of the present pass from Paine Hall, and the Freshmen and sub-Freshmen of today, brought up forensically under the new regime, stand in their places...
...book, has occasioned the greatest violence of argument among the anonymous combattors. The locked door and what lies beyond; the weary forty steps up forty steps down, and back again: the favoritism show the attendants in this vital matter-this is what has caused indifference and urbanity to pass from the minds of students of History I. But the forbidden gate still looms: and Rome may fall, and Popes and Emperors rage, in vain-while the privy passageway beyond remains a secret...
Perhaps it is still too early to pass judgement upon a scheme which has not yet been fully worked out. In any case it will be impossible to abandon the new plan until the engagements undertaken under it have been discharged. Meanwhile, however, the Harvard athletic authorities might do well to pause before proceding on a course which at best seems fraught with dangers...