Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Senate acted similarly. In Georgia, 89,000 children between the ages of 10 and 15 years- 20.8% of that age-group-are workers. Boys of 12, if orphans, are permitted to work in cotton mills. There is a maximum 10-hour day; and night work is permitted. A bill is before the Legislature (and reported likely to be passed) which will prohibit the employment of all children under 14 and forbid night work for those under 16. Nevertheless, Georgia was determined to have no national interference by "long-haired agitatists." Said the Resolution which was adopted...
Premier Takaaki Kato, in an address, expressed regret at the enactment of the U. S. Immigration Bill, promised that he would seek a new solution...
Prof. VV. C. Bagley, Teachers College, Columbia University, staunch worker for the Sterling-Reed Bill, evoked "a storm of applause" by denouncing Democratic and Republican discourtesies to education. He was for supporting a Third Party en masse if its platform carried the proper plank...
...Retirement; 2) Tenure; 3) National Recognition of Education. "I believe the time has come when the educators of the country must stand solidly united and resolved to obtain rightful recognition of education in our government." (Miss Jones repudiated the idea of an educational "bloc"; urged the Sterling-Reed Bill for a Federal Department of Education...
...President de Alvear announced that he would also send to Congress a bill to reform Argentina's banking and currency systems. The new measure would combine features of the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve system...