Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, the Senate listened indifferently to the arguments of a small rear guard of New Dealers against the Taft-Hartley labor bill. When the vote came, 17 Democrats joined the Republicans to pass the bill, 54 to 17. The House had already passed it, 320 to 79-plenty of votes, if the lines held, to override a presidential veto...
Then he handed them a mimeographed statement. The Mayor, it explained, was retiring because of his age-he claims to be 71, is suspected of being closer to 75. "In justice to my city and my family," he said, "I must pass on the heavy burden of administrative duties to younger men." The younger man he had in mind was his nephew, Frank Hague Eggers, 46. On June 17, Eggers would officially take over as mayor, when Hague's city commissioners officially elect...
Monro also stated that students should have their original certificates of eligibility, or lacking that, their discharge papers with them at registration, where the first desk they pass will be that of the Veterans Office...
History-and Hollywood film biographies-are full of painters who scrabbled for a living in obscure garrets, and became famous only when dead. But history and Hollywood pass over the many painters admired by all the world who later disappeared because their art lacked lasting power or because a generation lost interest...
McCormick starts each year with a baronial New Year's reception at the office. It is a command performance: his employees file past their morning-coated boss (a police dog mounts guard at his side), shake his hand, then pass on to the cigars and the punch bowl. Watching the show, his cousin, the late Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News, once drily observed: "Bertie certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march...