Word: davision
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Harper Woodrow Wilson Memorial Professor of Literature at Princeton, Chairman; R. S. Baker, Amherst, Mass.; Hon. J. W. Davis, New York; W. L. Lippman, the New York World; Miss Marion Park, Bryn Mawr College; Miss Ellen Pendleton, Wellesley College; and W. A. White, Emporia, Kansas.
As to the nature of quota-country immigrants, Secretary Davis' report showed three-fourths of them (254,574 in 1927) to be able active persons in-the-prime-of-life, aged 16 to 44.
Last week, when Secretary Davis of Labor reported on fiscal 1927, his immigration figures received close attention. They showed:
Leaving the state of the Army to Major-General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, who reported conventionally that it was good, and the state of the air to Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, who reported energetically that it was good and getting better, Secretary of War Davis...
Two main points did Secretary Davis make: 1) Let the U. S. announce definitely that it has no intention of withdrawing from the Philippines for some time to come. This would stabilize the Filipino state of mind. 2) Let Filipino politics be subordinated to Filipino economics.