Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life Camps take children only from the Family Service Welfare agencies of New York City. On arrival at camp, the child finds a minimum of regimentation. He joins a group of seven and takes up residence in a structure designed to stimulate his imagination and responsibility. It may be a covered wagon or an Indian tepee, a stone village or a treehouse. Each group, under a counselor, is virtually free to make its own rules, divide its duties and camp work, find its especial talents, fun, and paths of exploration...
Compared to the shame which heaped upon Tennessee when its laws were found Dowerless to prevent child marriages (TIME, Feb. 15),* a domestic relations case up last week in California brought obloquy far deeper & darker. The story reminded newsreaders of the powerful poetry of California's Robinson Jeffers, whose plots of incest the polite public shrinks from as wilful departures from reality...
...Last week Tennessee's new law setting 16 years as the minimum age for brides brought 12-year-old Geneva Hamby Peel and gangling, 32-year-old Homer Peel into court at Madisonville. But Judge A. T. Stewart sent the child back to the hills with her husband in the belief that she would be better off there than with her ne'er-do-well mother or in a State institution...
Senator Vandenberg, with his sly kewpie smile, explained why and how he drafted a new one: i) It seemed absurd, with the country at large in favor of abolishing child labor, that an amendment could not be written which "would say what we meant without saying what we didn't mean." 2) One of the President's chief arguments for the bill to enlarge the Supreme Court was that so simple a reform as the abolition of child labor could not be accomplished via a Constitutional amendment even in 13 years. Senator Vandenberg spent two months getting...
...disband a newspaper. But last week all rules were off in the Hearst empire of 26 newspapers, 13 magazines and assorted enterprises. The famed, New York American was dead, dropped like a cold potato. The queen-pin of his domain,* the paper that was called his journalistic "love child," on which he lavished money and affection and talent, was killed after a five-day conference...