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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One thing is certain, there is nothing to view with alarm in the immigration statistics for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, announced last week by Secretary of Labor James J. Davis. Since the passage of the Immigration Quota Law of 1924, which assigned a definite quota to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Prime | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

The 496,106 aliens admitted during the last fiscal year may be divided into three approximately equal groups: 1) natives of the quota countries; 2) natives of the nonquota countries, principally Canada and Mexico; 3) returning alien residents of the U. S., temporary visitors, transients, wives and children of U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Prime | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Married. Margaretta Barnwell ("Peggy") McNeal, Philadelphia horsewoman; to W. Deering Davis, onetime Chicago, now Paris horseman; at Devon, Pa.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Stephen and Sally later eloped, settling in Nassau, whence Stephen sailed over the world in the Chantrell & Chantrell ships, and whither Cordelia went, still a fierce dark beauty in her mid-twenties, as The Messenger, President Jeff Davis's special agent, to discover what Yankee spy was betraying Confederate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

THE HOUSE OF SIMPLICITY- Ethel Davis Seal-Century ($3). Let the reader ignore just what he might expect to find in such a book, namely a gushing stream of female adjectives like "quaint," "gay," "charming," "piquant," "tiny," "dear," "darling," "lovely," "thrilling," "adorable," -and here is a very good book indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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