Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restrictive immigration law of 1924 had 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...
...succeed Mr. du Pont in the Senate, Governor Robinson appointed Daniel O. Hastings, 54, onetime Delaware Secretary of State and Supreme Court justice, a man well acquainted with the du Pont interests...
Judge Ewing vigorously defended his action: "The children are the most important principals in the [Kourim] case. When this couple ran away at their age it was a gay adventure. . . . When the first child was one year old some court should have given them a lesson in birth control. . . . Their trouble is a direct reflection on the law of this state. The courts are forbidden to give out birth control information, the very thing that would have saved this couple from this situation...
...Court at Buckingham Palace, fourth day of December...
...Permanent Court of International Justice". Mr. Wynne, Harvard...