Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearing in a non-conformist and an individualist, yet an individualist who believes in collectivism and collective economy. He has been active in movements for women's rights, higher wage rates, and the prevention of child labor...
...himself about the present status of NRA. In his message to Congress he was rehearsing all the good points he could think of in NRA's favor-its noble objectives, its more disputable accomplishments: "Giving re-employment to 4,000,000 people. . . . Collective Bargaining. . . . Lifting the curse of child labor . . . starvation wages . . . excessive hours of labor . . . dishonorable competition." In a more defensive mood than usual, he admitted that NRA was not perfect but: "The fundamental purposes and principles of the act are sound. To abandon them is unthinkable...
This younger child (see cut) crawled about the floor like a frog, and its poor little body was so deformed from lack of nourishment that it did not resemble a human being. Its mother had died of starvation when it was one year...
Holbein's Edward VI as a Child was painted by order of the little Prince's mother, Jane Seymour, in 1538 as a New Year's present for Henry VIII. Hanging in Windsor Castle for years, it is believed that either George I or George II took it to Hanover. There it passed to the Duke of Cumberland-Brunswick and eventually to Knoedler & Co. who sold it to Mr. Mellon...
...psychological reactions of a child whose parents are divorced and remarried give "Wednesday's Child" a plot which might make an excellent picture. If the leading characters had been chosen with care, this might have happened, but as it is, the story misses fire...