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We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
William Howard Taft
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William Howard Taft
Age: 72 †
Born: 1857
Born: September 15
Died: 1930
Died: March 8
27Th U.S. President
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The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.
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I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.
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