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Said General Stone: "Some men think the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment are jokes, but they are laughing at the Stars and Stripes!"
With unusual team work, committees of the Senate and House reported almost simultaneously a proposed Constitutional Amendment. The Amendment would give Congress the right to regulate the employment of persons under 18 years of age. Three times Congress has passed laws to regulate the employment of such persons, commonly termed...
It is predicted that the proposed Amendment will pass promptly in the House with the necessary two-thirds majority. In the Senate, there may well be considerable delay and some of the staunch state-righters-Caraway, Overman, Stanley-may try to filibuster the measure out of the session.
At the next meeting the Ministry proposed an amendment to the bill which placed the burden of paying the rent of unemployed tenants on the local poor authorities. Liberal and Conservative leaders begged the Ministry to withdraw the refusal. It refused. A vote was taken. Some of the Liberals did...
Mustafa Kemal Pasha, Turkey's "man on horseback," who was hailed as dictator by the western world, found a recalcitrant steed last week in his Grand National Assembly. The proposed Turkish Constitution gave President Mustafa the right to dissolve the Assembly. The opposition, despite castigations by Ismet Pasha (Premier...