Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, who looks at the problem from a national viewpoint, must get Congress, who looks at the problem in a sectional manner, to pass his recommendations. Then the Supreme Court can invalidate them. Then the States may attempt to impinge their sovereignty. What civilized nation has such a hodge-podge of government...
...seems to me that he is forgetting the spirit of this movement, for the hope is that many other educational institutions will follow Harvard's lead, and if this comes to pass, then a large proportion of the refugees will be given both their daily needs and a fair opportunity to assimilate themselves into American life and to become useful citizens. Everyone recognizes that the refugees must be provided for, but is it not better to do it by intelligent planning than by carting them over here and dumping them in the slums? Education for them is not a luxury...
...Lima, "but here's a story for you. I think the outstanding Democratic candidate is the man [Herbert Henry Lehman] who has just been elected for the fourth time as Governor of the great State of New York. I don't see how the Democrats can pass up a man who has been elected Governor four times...
...ceremonial signing, at long last, in the historic East Room of the White House, of trade treaties with Great Britain and Canada, came to pass last week (see p. 53). To the Nation's First Hostess was left the first official announcement of another major international event. At her press conference Mrs. Roosevelt made known that George VI & Queen Elizabeth, after making a royal tour through Canada, will spend three days in June at the White House, one in New York City at the World's Fair. King George will have the northeast pink bedroom suite which Anna...
Crimson--Of course. We never let a man on a competition for any of our publications unless he can write five things that could never pass the censors...