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Immigration. Late in April (TIME, May 2) the U. S. Department of Labor issued General Order 86 which, among other provisions, classed naturalized but foreign-born Canadians as quota-immigrants, ruled that after Jan. 1, 1928, they could enter the U. S. only by securing admission under the quota given their country of birth. In other words, a Canadian citizen born in London would stand the same chance of getting into the U. S. as would a British citizen born in London and still living there. It should be added, however, that Canadians, even though foreign born, who have been...
...finally, he promised to bring the question to the attention of Congress when it should next convene. But he said that the order, based on the Immigration Act of 1924, could not be changed without authority from Congress, nor could any arrangement be made by which Canadian foreign born could be put on the quota ahead of or in place of their fellow nationals who lived at a greater distance from...
...Canadian Cabinet went into special session at Ottawa to consider a reply to Secretary Kellogg's note. The essential of the Canadian objection is that the U. S., as a foreign power, does not have the right to discriminate between two classes of Canadian citizens by admitting Canadian-born Canadians and putting foreign-born Canadians into an entirely different category, though both classes are equally citizens of Canada. Canadians affected are for the most part residents of Windsor, Ont., who daily cross the border to work in Detroit...
Robert Grant, best known as a novelist, has also been lawyer and judge, having spent 30 years (1893-1923) as judge of the Probate Court and Court of Insolvency of Suffolk County. Born in Boston in 1852, he graduated from Harvard in 1873 (though at one stage of his undergraduate career he was publicly reprimanded for having absented himself from chapel on 22 occasions). He has written more than 20 volumes of novels and essays, his stories generally dealing with the "best people," no state occasion being required for his characters to appear in evening dress...
...Moderator Davis, a leaflet of the Chicago Theological Seminary says: "A sturdy body, attached to Chippendale legs, and surmounted by a bulldog profile-that is your first impression of him. Afterward his twinkling eyes and gigantic laughter would attract you" He was born in Vermont; worked in his youth as a railroad telegrapher; preached, while his hair was yet red, at Newtonville, Mass., near Wellesley College and Boston; made the Chicago Seminary attractive to midwestern and southern divinity students. He is < years...