Word: enaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jocularly Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin assured a huge caucus of women at London, last week, that Parliament will shortly enact the long awaited bill extending suffrage downward from women over 30 to young women who have topped 21 (TIME, Feb. 20). Said the Prime Minister, playfully indicating Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks who will pilot the bill: "He is the Joshua who shall lead you into the promised land...
...them are on the Government pay rolls, drawing about $50,000,000 each year. . . . Nevertheless, they are too often subjected to thoughtless and inconsiderate treatment, unworthy alike of the white or colored races. They have? especially been made the target of the foul crime of lynching. . . . The Congress should enact any legislation it can under the Constitution to provide for its elimination...
...Enact legislation making war activity of any kind a crime against the State...
...months after the Declaration of Independence did the Continental Congress enact "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union" styling the 13 states the United States of America. These Articles, passed on Nov. 15, 1777, were ratified by only eight of the 13 states when they were promulgated on July...
...company of dolls will take the boards in Boston tonight to enact the Boston Symphony Orchestra at its busiest, Jonah and the Whale at the height of their disagreement with one another, willow trees which go democratic and grow bananas, and stories of Chinese mandarins and their lovely, distressed daughters...