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...city in 24 hours if the Mayor and City Government want it done." Two days, later Alphonse Capone issued on tinted stationery from his Miami fortress a lofty reply to General Butler. Wrote he: "The General is ill-informed. He should know the laws of this country protect an American-born citizen and prevent the deportation of anyone who, like myself, was born in this country. General Butler says I am a criminal. The only charge that I know of, or any law abiding authorities know of, is of my being charged with vagrancy. "I have been feeding between...
Died. Rev. Father John G. Hagen, 83, longtime director of the Vatican Observatory in Rome, only American-born citizen of the Vatican State; after a short illness, at Vatican City...
Viscountess Astor, American-born British feminist, gave the Plymouth Museum the dress she wore as the first woman to take a seat in the House of Commons...
Henry Weber, conductor of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, who incidentally, said that he was the only American-born conductor in the particular field of opera, paced up and down his room in the Ritz Carlton yesterday, as he pointed out the difference between audiences on the two continents...
...that students who had done well in high school had done well in college, or to hear that "the bottom 20% [of the group studied] might have been barred from entering college to the profit of all concerned, including themselves." More disquieting was the fact that the descendants of American-born grandparents stood about half as well in their studies as descendants of foreign-born grandparents. Also, ". . . the sons of fairly well educated parents are not doing so well . . . not half so well, as the sons of relatively uneducated parents." Moreover, "the faces of the inferior students look more typically...