Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eject that man", directed Senator James Mackay above the roar of hisses as he ended the Child Labor Amendment hearing at the State House yesterday. Kenneth Taylor of the Federation of Labor beat three constables to the door and to the picket line on the Common, ringing down the curtain on one of the best shows of the winter. Since the rule for these occasions is that one Harvard Professor is worth four press-agents, the presence of President-emeritus Lowell and John Raymond Walsh practically guaranteed a page one story. What could not be seen at the start...
That Massachusetts will not join the twenty-seven ratifiers of the child labor amendment seems sure now that the church leaders and other prominent persons have sharpened their objections. Just as anxious as anybody to keep youth out of the sweatshops, they are afraid that Congress given the power to "regulate, limit, and control the labor of children under eighteen" will regiment them on fascist lines. Yet time has failed to flush any dark lots lurking behind the measure. Knocked about state legislatures for thirteen years, it has no continuous and cohesive political backing, nor can the the welfare agencies...
...Charlie was afeered we would do the same on Eunice." But, said she, "This thing is all right with God. I know. A man who has God's word married my daughter. . . . They don't actually live as man and wife. Why, she's still my child, just my little baby. He treats her just like always, except they sleep in the same room now." Said Father Winstead: "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder. I wouldn't put my soul in danger of hell fire to bust up the marriage...
...action as clear as crystal. Silently she fosters Wang's yearning for more land, shields him from his sycophant uncle (Walter Connolly). In one of the screen's most authentic thunder storms she rushes forth to help save the wheat, stops to bear her first man-child alone. When the famine comes, she cooks mud for her three children, silently kills her friend the water buffalo when Wang cannot make himself do it. When he would sell his land for a pittance, she prevents it, leads the family in a great trek to the city in the south...
Born. To Pianist Josef Hofmann, 61; and Mrs. Betty Short Hofmann, 30, one-time concert pianist and Hofmann pupil: a son, their third child; in Philadelphia...