Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same thing. Immigrants from most countries in the Western Hemisphere escape the quota law. The law specifies that natives of Canada, Mexico, Cuba, etc. etc. shall be nonquota immigrants, and recent court decisions have permitted aliens born in quota countries to commute into the U. S. to work, in border cities like Detroit and Buffalo. Secretary Davis viewed alien commuters with alarm and also the swarms of Mexicans, 80,000 or more per annum, who have been sifting into the U. S. and getting U. S. workmen's jobs because they will work...
...tenth anniversary of the day once announced as the marker of the end of war, but so soon to become the starting-line for post-war platitudes. Manifold the causes must be that could blow the clear flame of idealism to the smoky glare of hatred. South American border rows are a common-place, but not for long have the contestants stood up so eagerly to cleave the air with passes at each other. It is true that the little brethen of the South felt none of the reverberations of the World War except indirectly; but that does not explain...
...pressure by the U. S. in Canada. Last week the State Department announced that revision of the U. S.-Canadian anti-smuggling treaty of 1924 was under negotiation-an announcement meaning that U. S. Minister William Phillips had finished negotiating; that a conference to calk the U. S.-Canadian border more tightly against liquor will probably be held next month...
Simultaneously with the closing of the 30 docks at Windsor, eleven U. S. border-patrol inspectors were arrested in Detroit by their superiors and charged with bribe-taking, conspiracy...
...regular"-Delaware's Townsend, Maryland's Goldsborough, Rhode Island's Herbert, New Jersey's Kean, Connecticut's Walcott and Glenn of Illinois. Perhaps West Virginia's Hatfield will show a streak of independence. Hatfield used to be a fighting name in the Border States and Henry D. Hatfield has known the authority of a Governorship...