Word: passing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several committees in these New England colleges have a job to do and they must do it quickly. In opening the ERP debate yesterday on the Senate floor, Senator Vandenberg urged his colleagues to pass the bill within two weeks. His plea for speedy action has been sharply underlined by the rapid turnover of events during the past week across the Atlantic. But the determined Congressional opposition to vital aspects of Marshall's proposals will not necessarily be jolted into line by news of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia or the ominous pressure put on Finland by the Soviets...
...American Activities subcommittee put Communist Benjamin Davis, a New York City councilman and member of the Communist Party's national executive board, in its witness chair. Negro Ben Davis was happy at the chance to taunt the committee, which he called "tainted with illegality." He defied Congress to pass a bill requiring U.S. Communists to register as agents of a foreign nation, predicted that Communists would simply ignore it. Said Davis: "We . . . refuse to be put in the category of political suspects. . . . Gentlemen, it is not within your power to legislate the failure of this mighty movement...
Shoreditch v. the City. Even Winston Churchill was hard put to it to pitch his disagreement. But he could not see the old traditions pass without a growling Churchillian salute. Said...
...book will probably be received with polite but uneasy praise; his specific proposals will be picked apart by those who are nonplussed by his general principles. Most readers, however, will probably nod in agreement-and pass on, a mite more disturbed than before, to the daily chores of a world of expediency...
Members of the Marshall Plan Committee will "stick by their program" but withheld, pending a meeting today, official comment on their position should E.R.P. by-pass...