Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing to view with alarm in the immigration statistics for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, announced last week by Secretary of Labor James J. Davis. Since the passage of the Immigration Quota Law of 1924, which assigned a definite quota to the countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, it makes little difference in the alien population of the U. S. whether or not there is a bad potato crop in Ireland or a revolution in Hungary. Immigration has become a standpat, almost mechanical phenomenon. Compare the figures for the last two years...
...MOTHER DEAR" : THE EMPRESS MARIE OP RUSSIA AND HER TIMES-V. Poliakov ("Au-srur")-Appleton ($3.50). ²H. R. H.-Major F. E. Verney-Doran ($3.50). ¼³THE TOUR OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA-Ralph Deakin -Lippincott ($4.00). *His full title is instructive as a gazetteer of his eight million square miles of absolute domain: "The Orthodox and Pious and Christ-loving, the absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Crowned and Elevated by God, Alexander Alexandrovitch, Emperoi and Autocrat of All the Russias, His Tsaric Majesty of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar...
...estimation I had 'done most to promote the welfare of mankind' in my particular field. Upon accepting the medal, I made a speech, showing that in 1925 each freight employe in the U. S. "handled 320,019 tons of goods for each mile of transportation furnished. In Africa where blackamoor porters still carry freight on their backs, each is capable of but 152 ton-miles a year. I explained the three basic means of transportation-horse-drawn (having lost ground long since); the self-contained unit (steam engine); the central power plant with ropes of power stretching...
...adoption of this definition was hailed as a magnum opus of Premier Hertzog of South Africa who alone had insisted with die-hard tenacity that the vague phrase "Dominion Status" be clarified once and for all (TIME...
...total abstainer from tobacco, alcohol and soap. To these denials I attribute my present vigor at 70. I am now engaged upon a new play, to be called Vegetariana. For a young girl dying of an obscure malady, doctors prescribe beefsteaks; she does not improve. The doctors prescribe Africa, but with all the comforts of civilization, she does hot improve. There the play ends. Asked what I should do with the money of the award, I observed: 'What I do with the rest of my money, which is none of the public's business...