Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question most frequently asked was: Why by-pass U.N.? Did the Truman Doctrine, which promised independent U.S. action to "help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity" mean that U.N. was dead, or at the best moribund...
...first official act was to void the appointment of 21 state officers installed by Hummon. Then he began looking over the laws, including the white-primary bill, which Hummon had got the legislature to pass. When it was rumored that M. E. might veto the white-primary bill, the word got to the legislature. At week's end, the legislators quietly adjourned the session without passing the 3% sales-tax bill that would pay for M. E.'s road, hospital, education and old-age benefit program. A new legislature would not convene until after the general election...
...took two days and most of a night session to debate a proposed constitutional amendment to bar a presidential third term. Then the G.O.P. leadership frittered away the rest of its first night session discussing not issues, but agenda, barely squeezing in a vote (59-to-23) to pass the third-term...
...conference came to close grips with Germany's economic future, which is the real key to success or failure, General Lucius Clay moved in from Berlin to pass Marshall more ammunition...
...charms Carradine's brainy wife (Ann Dvorak) into working for him; draws her widowed friend (Angela Lansbury) into a hopeless infatuation; sets a publisher's virtuous wife (Katherine Emery) burning with ill-repressed desire for him; exploits the virginal love of her daughter (Susan Douglas) ; makes a pass (unsuccessful) at devout Frances Dee; contracts a convenience marriage with Widow Dvorak over the scarcely cold body of her husband; frames her with Diplomat Warren William in order to be free to marry little Miss Douglas; buys a title and, ultimately, gets killed in a duel...