Word: repassing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hastened back to Hartford by airplane to "straighten out this mess." As he stepped out of the plane, he asked: "What's the matter? As soon as I get out of the state, you boys start raising hell." Promptly he summoned a special session of the legislature to repass en masse all the legislation voided by the court...
...vote. For Joe Forecast, despite all rumors to the contrary, is but human; and there is his weakness. But football, a game for red-blooded, virile men, there Joe Forecast is in his element. How he longs for the opening kickoff to see the Crimson-jerseyed hosts pass and repass the last white line. But I grow poetic. I have to be very careful about that...
...Canada, American newspapers, magazines and goods are all there; an invisible border divides the territories under the British flag and the flag of the United States. They pass and repass that border and play the same games with one another without knowing anything of the difference in nationalities...
There is no doubt that the bill will be passed originally. A veto by President Coolidge is almost equally certain. The House is expected to muster without difficulty a two-thirds vote to repass the bill over the veto. In the Senate the real fate of the bill will be determined...
...Failure to repass the bill over the President's veto. This will probably take place in the Senate, where the bonus advocates claimed a bare two-thirds vote. Two Senators were reported to have abandoned the bonus cause, following the publication of the tax reduction plan...