Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even many Democrats approved the bill, which was sent to the House, by a 77-to-10 vote. House Democrats took another futile try at the Barkley amendment. Finally, 102 of them (and New York's Party-line Vito Marcantonio) lined up with 178 Republicans to pass the bill. Triumphantly, Bob Taft declared: "The President has power today to check nearly all of the principal causes of inflation if he really wishes to do so." This was taken by most Washingtonians in the partisan spirit in which it was offered. Even so-and despite cartoonists' jeers-a start...
...Japanese police spent more than 100,000 yen searching for kindly Matsukichi. Their repeated failure to capture him, he said, caused the Diet to pass a national theft prevention...
...before the committee behind closed doors. Anderson battled stubbornly for two. hours. He pleaded that he hated to refuse information to Congress. He protested that the 1936 law stood in his way; it specified that names of traders must be kept confidential by the Government. But if Congress would pass a resolution which, in effect, rescinded that part of the law, he was sure the President would sign it. (That would also give Anderson an opening to make the list public...
...Rates. For several months banks have been gradually raising their interest rates on loans. So California's Bank of America, world's biggest bank, decided to pass some of the gravy on to depositors. On Jan. 1 it will boost its interest on savings from 1¼% to 1½% on accounts up to $10,000, from 1% to 1¾%% on larger sums...
Radio Daily's blast at radio repairmen set up an immediate echo. Last week New York City Councilman Stanley Isaacs threatened to introduce a long-contemplated bill forcing radio repairmen (like plumbers, electricians, etc.) to pass municipal license tests. And membership in the two-month-old Associated Radio Servicemen of N.Y.. Inc. (whose pious principle is "to see that the public gets a good deal") hopped from...