Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...votes," said South Carolina's Byrnes. "The bill will pass." That the roll call which followed these contradictory claims proved Byrnes right and Clark wrong did not mean that the Reorganization Bill's difficulties were completely over. From the Senate it goes not to conference, but to the House, where Administration leaders may expect the battle to begin again...
...Gilbert Gable has become mayor. But no construction of the railroad has been started. Tired of waiting, local tycoons got behind a rival scheme. Five months ago, before an ICC examiner, this new group declared that it had funds to build a $7,000,000 line from Grants Pass, 15 miles south of Leland on the Southern Pacific, across the coastal range to Crescent City, 97 miles south of Port Orford on the California coast just below the Oregon line,* asked for a certificate of convenience and necessity. Against an imposing array of witnesses for the rival line, Gilbert Gable...
Taking the affirmative on the question, "Resolved: That Congress should pass the Equal Rights Amendment" were Malcolm R. Wilkey '40 and Eno W. Hobbing '40. Ruth Frankel, Chairman of the Debate Club and Margaret Delahanty, President-Elect of the Wellesley Forum, argued against the amendment on the grounds that it would destroy the present program of "specific bills for specific ills...
...think the Bill's over the bumps now; it ought to pass in the House, which is better organized than the Senate," he predicted in conclusion...
...chief accomplishment of Louis Dembitz Brandeis before his appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court was to get the Massachusetts Legislature to pass a law allowing savings banks to issue life insurance. That was in 1907. Despite the tight-lipped opposition of all the old-line insurance companies, the plan was a thoroughpaced success. There are now 24 Massachusetts savings banks with life insurance departments, 117 more that act as agents. Massachusetts citizens can insure their lives for anything between $100 and $24,000. At the end of 1937 some 160,000 Massachusetts citizens or onetime Massachusetts citizens had policies...