Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, be counted in their favor. The Governor may also make any discrimination that he desires between the two men?for instance it would be legally possible, though highly unlikely, for him to pardon one of the prisoners and make no intervention on behalf of the other. The only limit on the Governor's authority is his inability to order a new trial...
...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 in the various states...
...security essential and the farmers have no security to offer. Mr. Craig (quoted above) said that the farm credit corporations were "absolutely worthless." Mr. J. M. Barham, bank president at Avoyelles, La., said: "The banks would like to help but they cannot for they are already drained to the limit. They are all loaded down with farm paper. ... It is a fearful predicament for these unhappy people. . . . Unless something is done they will be face to face with starvation...
...Although the British and U. S. delegations were able to agree on the figure of 450,000 cruiser tons as a basis of limitation, last week, they could not agree on the proportions in which to build ships of various sizes with-in this limit of total tonnage...
...American delegation came . . . ready to negotiate and modify our plan within reason, but it is better to abandon the attempt to limit armaments rather than try to put over a camouflage scheme which means either immense additional construction or relegation [of the U. S. Navy] to second place...