Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours; October 1945 40? and 40 hours. Meantime, committees representing management, labor and the public may fix the wage minima actually applying to any industry anywhere between 30 and 40? (so long as the standards do not cause unemployment). Along with Wages & Hours goes Federal prohibition of Child Labor (under 16) in interstate commerce industries effective immediately and applying to 50,000 children...
From Breclav, now the German Lundenberg, 204 Jews were expelled by Austrian Nazis fortnight ago. For a few days, food was sent from Sudeten towns. Then a desperate Jewish mother smuggled her six- month-old child back into Breclav and the Germans cut off all food. "We are lying beneath hedges," a Jewish mother, big with child wrote to Prague. "We have no money and our only clothing is what we were wearing when we were expelled...
Jack and Jill, while a modern magazine for modern moppets, will not thrust aside the traditional Teddy-bear atmosphere and playroom gear of the child's World to reveal the razzle-dazzle streamlined machine age of rocketing Buck Rogers. Designed to tweak the curiosity of young readers or listeners will be stories giving a sound if rudimentary picture of the physical world and modern industry. Novel literary features include: vocational stories "appealing to the child's deep interest in the motorman, the fireman, the engineer, etc."; "Paper Tearing," a section "designed to satisfy a child's constant...
Playwright Sherwood's interpretation is the child of the hour. Psychologically his Lincoln, beautifully played by Canadian-born Actor Raymond Massey, is familiar enough: a salty, sinewy smalltown fellow* cursed with a submerged streak of loneliness and bitterness, plagued by an unsympathetic wife and haunted by an unshakable sense of doom. But Sherwood's chief interest in Lincoln is spiritual, not psychological: it consists of vividly, though not altogether convincingly, tracing Lincoln's growth from an indolent, unambitious "artful dodger" who wanted to be left alone, to a suddenly aroused and embattled champion of human rights...
...learning and the classical grandeur of the Church. At the other angle of the triangle is Dermot Francis O'Flingsley, the rebellious schoolmaster who attacks the Canon and the Church as being cruelly aloof from the pain and squalor of life. And at the apex is Brigid, the simple child who was visited by the spirit of her namesake, St. Brigid and who, dying, left the two men she loved alone in their bitterness...