Word: await
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, effective regulation of child labor must await the passage of the Child Labor Amendment- to give Congress the power to protect children not under the wing of the commerce clause. It has been waiting a long time. Since 1924 the battle for State ratification has proceeded painfully against organized opposition and unorganized indifference. To date only 28 of the necessary 36 States have joined the humanitarian line-up. The Amendment has been fought all along the way by the propaganda and high-pressure lobbying of powerful interest groups. But a nation-wide poll conducted in 1937 gives a majority...
...auschluss Austrian aristocrats. When her employers with all their culture and education were stamped out under the swastika, this sextagenarian could face the future with calmness. For she had purchased a seat amongst the blessed by educating a nephew for the priesthood--and there was nothing to do but await the call to a sure place in heaven...
...Italian will fight just as bravely and as honorably as any man who fights for justice. I know this to be true because I am of that blood. I am 22 and await eagerly my draft call to help defend America...
...starving a little, await the new bounty...
...ballots in the coming election. Their most recent success was yesterday's decision of the New York Supreme Court barring the Communists from that State's election lists. Already ten other states have done this; and in Pittsburgh forty-three Communist petition circulators, including a Harvard graduate, await trial on charges of fraud. The story in the Smoky City is typical of Legion strategy...