Word: prohibitional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SECTION 1?The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years...
Child Labor. Opposition to the ratification of the proposed Amendment to the Constitution, which would give Congress the power to regulate or prohibit child labor, because the amendment does not exempt child labor on farms from the activities which Congress would have power of regulating...
...science of population remains in too hazy a state to make legislative meddling with the birth rate profitable or even safe. Mussolini shows wisdom in his speech Thursday announcing that he would prohibit any attempt to restrict the rapid growth of Italian population, in spite of the fact that the situation is a very "preoccupying feature of the national life." France finds her low birth rate an asset and a liability, and is consequently in a quandary. Her limited supply of cannon fodder has long been considered the weak spot in her armor against the prolific Hun. The deadly baby...
...right to increase the angle at which our guns may fire (the Limitation of Armaments Treaty being the possible bar) has apparently been settled, at least within the Executive Department of the Government. Secretary Wilbur says that the State and Navy Departments agree that the Treaty does not prohibit gun elevation...
...Establishment of a central board to which all countries should furnish estimates of their opium requirements and, at the same time, guarantee to prohibit excess importations...