Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed Amendment to the Constitution, giving Congress power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age, hung on in the Senate. The House had approved it. The Senate was expected to approve it ? if it could be brought to a vote...
...country prohibit an unwelcome immigrant from landing on its shores? Can a country order an unwelcome musician to leave its shores? Both questions have been answered in the affirmative?the first by the U. S. to the disadvantage of the Japanese, the second by France to the discomfiture of Americans...
Child Labor. The President favored an amendment to the Constitution giving Congress power to regulate or prohibit child labor. After being passed by the House this proposal has apparently been set aside for this session in the Senate...
...regard to the question of establishing a traffic court in Boston, Mr. Goode said: "I am strongly in favor of establishing a special traffic court for Boston, and believe that in time it will be necessary to prohibit practically all vehicle traffic in the retail district, except such as is absolutely necessary to the maintenance of business...
...Calif had no place in a Republic. The temporal power which was attached to his religious office stood always in the way of progress. For example, when it was decided that women should not be forced to wear a veil, the Calif objected. Again, it was impossible to prohibit polygamy when the Calif had more than one wife. In order to separate once and for all, the new state from the old religion, Abdul Medjid had to be ousted. As good Republicans the Turks recognized no authority higher than the Constitution. As good Moslems they would continue to reverence...