The New International Year BookDodd, Mead and Company, 1920 |
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Page 151 - Trustees') composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, all ex officio. The Secretary of the Treasury shall be the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'Managing Trustee').
Page 369 - This Act shall be liberally construed, to the end that its purpose may be carried out, to wit: That the care, custody and discipline of a child shall approximate as nearly as may be that which should be given by its parents...
Page 192 - An act to save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States', approved March 19, 1918, as amended, shall be advanced one hour.
Page 109 - On my honor I will do my best — 1 . To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the scout law; 2. To help other people at all times ; 3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Page 151 - ... sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work more than eight hours in any day or more than six days in any week, or after the hour of seven o'clock postmeridian, or before the hour of six o'clock antemeridian...
Page 120 - Commission, which shall consist of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds...
Page 394 - ... a fine of not more than $5000 or imprisonment for not more than five years in States prison or both.
Page 344 - The International Labour Office shall be established at the seat of the League of Nations as part of the organisation of the League.
Page 104 - The executive power is vested in a president elected for four years by direct popular vote, and...
Page 344 - Each State should make provision for a system of inspection in which women should take part, in order to ensure the enforcement of the laws and regulations for the protection of the employed.