Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good tactician, politely excused himself. When the Press noted this byplay, a spokesman for the President announced: "This is not the first time that Mr. Smith had been invited to be an overnight guest at the White House. At least once a year, Mr. Smith has been invited to pass either a night or a week-end there. But he never saw fit to accept even one of these invitations...
Disruptions. More issues will doubtless be battled over than the President can today possibly anticipate. The Bonus, with a preferred place on the House calendar, may be the least of these, for its advocates are preparing to compromise on anything that will pass out money in plentiful quantities to make contented voters before election...
Political Townsendites were evidently out to emulate the efforts of the Anti-Saloon League and American Legion to win endorsements from candidates in exchange for votes. First step was to send letters to every member of Congress asking: "Can we rely upon your help to pass a bill embodying the Townsend Plan at the coining session? Yes. . . . No. ... In the issue of The National Townsend Weekly of Dec. 30 we will publish either your answer to this questionnaire or that you failed to answer. Please be assured that we desire only to correctly inform our followers of your attitude...
...only a few months distant a Bonus bill satisfactory to the veterans will be rushed through Congress with enough votes to carry it over the strongest veto message President Roosevelt might compose. Speaker of the House Joe Byrns put himself on record last week as expecting the Bonus to pass both Houses by Feb. 1. Unofficial wiseacres predicted that within three months War veterans' pockets would jingle with $2,000,000.000 in cash...
...Geneva of the lesser nations of Eastern Europe. In recent weeks British diplomatic and financial pressure induced Turkey, the Little Entente and Greece verbally to promise Mr. Eden at Geneva that their armed aid could be counted on by Britain were she attacked. The little states were asked to pass this on to Benito Mussolini but declined. Thereat Britain conveyed the information to Il Duce anyhow, with the unexpected result that Italy redoubled her threats and Britain agreed to "The Deal"-only to repudiate it afterward and leave Turkey, the Little Entente and Greece bitterly complaining to Geneva correspondents this...