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...worked. Two things worried him, or two phases of the 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...
...observes that the capture by Imperial Germany of so many industrial towns in Northern France forced the development of an entire new industrial area around such southern, central and western cities as Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Grenoble, Limoges, Tours, Caen, Rouen and even Paris. It is these new and War-born producer areas which Mr. Cahill hails as of paramount significance in the French industrial boom of today...
These leanings upon the University, President Turner knows. He was born and partially educated in the state. So, astutely he gave his inaugural address last week a utilitarian tone: "This institution is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Like an industrial agent, it is evaluated in terms of its yield. It deserves and can rightfully claim the .united support of thoughtful citizens on the ground of its educational service. . . . Build the University into the life of the state." That was a parody of Cornell's byword, where President Turner once taught: "Build yourself into...
...Herbert Clark Hoover was born a Quaker, his mother being zealous in the communities of Friends in Iowa. Mrs. Hoover was an Episcopalian, but adopted her husband's faith after their marriage. Hoover's reticence before the public was said to be due largely to his Quaker upbringing...
...Born. To Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Manhattan; his first grandson, Irving Berlin Jr., the son of Songwriter Irving Berlin & Mrs. Berlin (Ellin Mackay); in Manhattan...