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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immigration. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court set aside the Jay Treaty of 1794-on the ground that the treaty had died in the War of 1812-and declared that aliens resident in Canada or naturalized Canadians could not under the 1924 U. S. Immigration Act commute across the U. S. border to daily work. Minister Massey had protested to the U. S. on this interpretation, originally made by the Labor Department, on the ground that it goes behind Canada's citizenship laws, discriminates between native and foreign-born citizens of the Dominion. The Supreme Court...
...Three Just Men-the survivors of his eccentric millionaire quartet who administered justice when the law failed. A labyrinthine maze of blood and thunder, his latest concoction works itself up to a grand finale with airplanes training guns on a London riverfront den of vice, and deadly snakes slithering across the floor toward a lovely victim. That she was heiress to a gold-mine in South Africa she did not know; but her half-demented captor knew; and the Three Just Men knew-almost too late. The man who was bringing her the deeds was fatally and mysteriously struck...
...write about a mystic without making him seem too queer is a distinguished accomplishment. Author Williamson's mystic cuts strident across a maze of conventionalities, but he is never cheap, affected, sentimentalized. His theories may well antagonize, but his understanding of animals, his intuition regarding fellow humans, are faultless, impressive...
...Each year he gives 30,000 francs ($1,175) for the most interesting accomplishment in aviation. Last week he gave the money to Juan de la Cierva, who invented the autogiro (flying machine with vanes whirling horizontally to give the effect of fixed wings) and who flew it recently across the English Channel...
Trans-Hemisphere Transport. For two years European nations have been sending flyers to scout airways across Africa, across Asia. Last week England utilized its amassed information. Its Imperial Airways started weekly commercial service from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...