Sentence:  That guiding principle of the Hoover Administration fell to the siege guns of the New Deal ; less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946 , by which the national government <WSD>assumed</WSD> the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person