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...After brisk debate, the convention indorsed the Child Labor Amendment to the U. S. Constitution?an amendment which thus far has been ratified by only five states of the 36 necessary for the amendment to become a law. The topic of "protective legislation" (restriction of women workers to an eight-hour day) provoked argument between those who felt that women could not reach executive positions with a time-limit handicap on their labor and those who felt that women were likely to be exploited by unscrupulous male employers. The matter was finally left to the individual action of women...
...Raymond Poincare has been 15 years a Deputy, 27 years a Senator, eight times a Minister, three times Premier (1911-13, 1922-24, 1926-), and was the great Wartime President of France (1913-20). His achievement during the last twelve-month has been: first, to raise the value of the franc from 41 to the dollar to 26; second, to cut the short-term indebtednesses of the State from 24,000,000,000 francs to less than 8,000,000,000 francs; third, to increase the Treasury reserves from 50,000,000 francs...
That was complot, cried Judge Rutherford. The "regular" churches were seeking to destroy his sect. In 1918 they had him sent to Atlanta Penitentiary for obstructing the War draft. But the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, after he had spent eight months in jail, had ordered him released. The present exclusion from the air was another "frame-up." Mr. Aylesworth was in cahoots with the preachers...
Among those falling by the wayside in last week's Western Amateur were: Frank Dolp, 1926 champion; Keefe Carter, 1925 champion; Chick Evans, eight times champion; Chuck Hunter, winner of the qualifying medal; John Ames, undergraduate son of Princeton's sinuous football player Knowlton ("Snake") Ames...
Died. Charles Fuller Baker, founder and dean of Los Banos Agricultural College* at the University of the Philippines, brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker ("David Grayson"); at Manila, P. I. For eight years he had lived in a village shack, sleeping on a broken bamboo bed, halving his salary with War-impoverished fellow-scientists in Europe. He furnished the Universities of Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, Vienna and the Philippines with extensive zoological collections; left a collection at Los Banos including 50,000 insect specimens...