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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned yesterday that Mayor Quinn has submitted these suggestions to the City Council; and a definite date has been set for the hearing, which is to take place on March 19. It is not expected that the University will encounter any opposition to its petitions, for it now owns all the property abutting on the streets affected...
...preserved. The 1924 law therefore carried a provision for the establishment of quotas based on National Origins Scientists were to determine the racial composition of the present day U. S., starting from the first U. S. census (1790. pop 3,900,000), analyzing the growth of population to date with reference to national ancestries and thus, in effect, fixing the proportion each foreign country contributed to U.S. "native stock" and the development of that stock since. To the U S were then to be admitted 150,000 immigrants annually, in direct proportion to the contributions their native countries have made...
...sack of Washington in 1814. Native stock, clear in the early days, was blurred by intermarriage with alien newcomers. Historical data is scant or unreliable. Racial names have become meaningless through social changes. So the 2Oth Century scientists bogged down in confusion and Congress in 1927, postponed the effective date of National Origins to July 1, 1928; later to July 1, 1929, where it now remains...
Soon Britons will ballot in their General Parliamentary Election the ultimate question of which is: "Who will head 'the next administration as Prime Minister?" Though ballots will not be cast for two or three months yet-depending on the date when His Majesty declares the present Parliament dissolved-there were last week important election developments...
...room in a queer two-story house on East 17th Street. After more than a year, with idea firm in mind, with friendly valuable advice from great and good friends, with what only they deemed sufficient capital,* and with a gradually assembled group of enthusiasts,† they issued, under date of March 3, 1923, the first Newsmagazine-TIME. Thereafter to Briton Hadden success came steadily, satisfaction never...