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...that they held 30,000 shares of stock among them, were none of them stockholders of record as of Jan. 30, 1925; that, if they hold stock, it has been acquired since that date; that Brown Bros. had before made suggestion which the company's management decided to reject; that the company today is "in excellent position" and that the "vague charge of mismanagement" can be dismissed as "absolutely unfounded...
...said that 28 States will reject it, although only 13 standing against it would be enough to prevent its ratification. Theoretically, States which have rejected it may still ratify it but practically the amendment seems doomed. (See LETTERS, Page...
...commenting on the Child Labor Amendment, in your issue of Jan. 19, you say. "If the amendment is to be defeated, ten other states must reject...
...proposed Wadsworth-Garrett amendment that "until three-fourths of the states shall ratify or one-fourth shall reject, any vote of a state may be changed" and "when ever one-fourth of the states shall reject . . . further consideration by the states is at an end" is intended to heal this constitutional idiosyncracy, since it also fixes a time limit by providing that "any proposed amendment shall be inoperative unless ratified within eight years." T. E. SANDS...
...Child Labor Amendment (TIME, Jan. 5), after successive rejections by three states, at last received another ratification. California was the donor. The State Senate voted 36 to 3 in favor of the amendment; the Assembly voted 69 to 9. So California and Arkansas now stand together, two champions of the amendment against three rejectors. If the amendment is to be added to the constitution, 34 other states must ratify. If the amendment is to be defeated, ten other states must reject...