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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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. S. citizens, etc. And, said Secretary Davis proudly: "About three-fourths of the present-day immigrant aliens are in the prime of life-16 to 44 years...
...Citizens' Committee on War-Time Prohibition. The titles of some of his tomes give a clew to the mind of the man: A Brief Introduction to the Infinitesimal Calculus, The Nature of Capital and Income, National Vitality, The Purchasing Power of Money, How to Live, League or War? etc. And all this was not enough. So Professor Fisher in his odd moments became a businessman-inventor. He conceived the "Index Visible" filing system, was made first president of that company which recently merged with Rand-Kardex Bureau...
...clipped by hostile Filipinos. This Board is composed of the Governor General, the President of the Senate (Manuel Quezon), the Speaker of the House (Manuel Roxas). It controls and selects the directors of all government owned corporations: the Philippine National Bank, the Manila Railroad Co., the National Coal Co., etc. Governor General Wood, being the minority member of this Board, was unable to put his policies into effect; so last week, on the day of the adjournment of the legislature, he announced that henceforth all the duties and powers of the Board of Control were his alone. He had ready...
Then there were pages devoted to the effects, positive and negative, of: wearing high-heeled shoes; developing the body by "exercises"; using cosmetics and 'hair dyes; taking anesthetics; removing surplus hair; removing the appendix; smoking; dieting to cure diabetes; undergoing the Steinach operation for rejuvenation, etc...
...mental tool-chests of thinking men. And what Darwin thought of reconciling science and religion is plainly indicated in a quotation in one of his letters about an orthodox admirer: "He says he is chiefly converted because my books make the Birth of Christ, Redemption by Grace, etc., plain to him! How funny men's minds...