Word: weak
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Because State laws were weak or unenforced. Mrs. Kelley was one of the first to demand Federal legislation against child exploitation. Self-interest rather than high ideals caused organized labor to swing to her support, for every child put out of a job meant a new job for a grownup. Mrs. Kelley and the National Child Labor Committee lobbied and lobbied at Washington, finally in 1906 won a $50.000 appropriation for an investigation. It showed conditions just as bad as Mrs. Kelley expected. In 1912 the Federal Children's Bureau was created but it had no power...
...seasoned this fare with generous helpings of sardonic Iowa humor. Grandpa Storr, a cross between Falstaff and King Lear, talked like Mark Twain in unexpurgated mood. His language and actions were equally offensive to his household, consisting of: his nephew's wife (wicked), his stepdaughter (foolish), her husband (weak). They sat around like jackals waiting for him to die, watching their chance to put him in an institution. When they heard that his granddaughter Louise was coming back to the farm they were alarmed, afraid that Grandpa would change his will in her favor. Sure enough, Grandpa and Louise...
Meeting over cups of ceremonial tea the Japanese Cotton Spinners' Federation voted unanimously to boycott raw Indian cotton. In vain Japan's rheumy-eyed Finance Minister, withered Viscount Korekiyo Takahashi, protested that "any boycott is to be deprecated." He was called "weak" by an irate Tokyo press. In their bitter reaction against Britain, Japanese last week exuberantly acclaimed and feted the U. S. cruiser Houston, first courtesy call paid by the U. S. Asiatic flagship in Japanese waters in five years...
...pumps it with his foot to shoot auxiliary air up through a hose into his mouth where, by a special facial technique, he shoots it back into the instrument. Tubaman Houston is puny. His aerophor is purely a lung-saving device. William Bell's invention is not for weak tubamen. It does the work of two tubas-a double bass and a baritone. It has two mouthpieces, two sets of tubing (together more than 16 yd. long), weighs 50 Ib. It goes deeper than any tuba has ever gone before, deeper than any music has ever been written...
...biggest objection to deposit guarantee is that it drains the strength of sound banks to save the depositors of banks already weak. Wherever it has been tried* it has been a disastrous failure. Hence few bankers are in favor of it. Last week the president of the American Bankers Association urged his members to ask President Roosevelt to veto the bill as "unsound, unscientific, unjust and dangerous...