Word: bans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would gear the Office of Education to be a powerful liaison service between the schools and the new agencies of the Government. This month the Office's School Life (paid circulation 10,000-largest of any Government organ) describes for teachers the "Children's Code" (child labor ban), tells how school districts may apply for Public Works funds for building. School Life asks: "Can you name the ten new Federal agencies whose long names have shrunk to initial letters? Do you know the purpose of each of these ten weapons
...textbooks, explaining to children why such maxims as "Competition is the life of trade" and "A penny saved is a penny earned" are at present invalid. Whether or not NRA is of immediate benefit to Education, Dr. Zook predicts it will widen Education's bounds. The child labor ban will put 100,000 new pupils in the high schools. And the increase of leisure will increase the demand for adult education, by which teachers may "interpret social trends and . . . re-emphasize the fundamental significance of education in our social development." Further, NRA should bring an increased interest...
Harvard imposes few restrictions on the liberty of the student. The requirements of attendance at classes are very liberal so long as the student remains in good standing; there is no compulsory chapel; no ban on automobiles; no restrictions on his personal comings and goings...
...jumped their price 10? per bag. The bids were thrown out. new ones called for. Last week the Board of Estimate, disgusted with this result of BUY AMERICAN, and egged on by Attorney Samuel Untermyer who denounced the U. S. cement industry as a price-fixing trust, rescinded its ban on foreign cement...
...congratulate Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1929 when he signed a bill prohibiting the cropping of dogs' ears in New York. Last week the Association sent its congratulations to another Governor, Pennsylvania's Gifford Pinchot. for signing a bill which made his State the fifth to ban this practice. Others: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut...