Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With unusual team work, committees of the Senate and House reported almost simultaneously a proposed Constitutional Amendment. The Amendment would give Congress the right to regulate the employment of persons under 18 years of age. Three times Congress has passed laws to regulate the employment of such persons, commonly termed children, and three times the Supreme Court has declared such laws unconstitutional...
Last week the Department of Labor made public statistics obtained in 34 large cities. In 29 of the cities, the number of children under 16 years of age entering regular employment for the first time showed an increase in 1923. In 19 of these cities the increase was 30% or more. In nine of the cities the increase was 50% or more...
...pugilist; age, 21, sex, female; looking for a fight...
John J. Pershing: "Many months ago Secretary of War Weeks asked Congress to enact a law to retain me on the active service list after I reach the retirement age next September. No action has been taken. F. W. Wile, Washington correspondent, called this another example of Congressional inefficiency...
That Massachusetts Hall, after two centuries of service should be put to such menial use shows a strange lack of appreciation. The building deserves a peaceful and honorable old age, certainly not one of ignominious drudgery...