Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators (both had led the fight to pass the Case Bill) had another identical theme: labor has too long regarded any legislation except that which is unmistakably pro-labor as hopelessly bad. But, Senator Ball chided the delegates, "We have been unable to get constructive suggestions from labor leaders . . . they have no suggestions to offer whatever...
...final, half-hearted skirmishes over price control in Congress mattered little. For OPA was already beaten. Probably no bill could pass Congress which would in any way satisfy Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles. The prospect was that in six months the stabilization program would consist of little more than rent control and some priorities aimed at channeling building materials into housing for veterans...
With no fuss or fanfare Saskatchewan last week passed its second anniversary as Canada's only socialist province. Next week, with plenty of fuss and fanfare, the voters of Morse constituency, in a critical by-election, will pass judgment on the record of their CCF Government...
...England in the six months following D-Day knew the words Lichfield and Kilian as well as he knew the location of the nearest pub. Through the far-reaching military grapevine came unbelievable tales about the guardhouse at the Tenth Depot and of the colonel in command. Former pass from the Lichfield base would continually warn their buddies: "Keep your nose clean when you get there." They beat prisoners there, they told you, and some guys died from the beatings. To those who wondered why nothing had been done about it, the answer was as GI as Willie...
...island would process its rehabilitated charges through the Tenth Depot, a reconverted British post in the Midlands, on their way back to the Continent. Until March, 1945, there were no furloughs offered between hospital and depot-once you arrived at Lichfield, there was a possibility of a 48-hour pass. If you weren't lucky, you crossed the Channel without a pass...