Word: ethnic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...varied story, as recorded on the tablets, of the life of a people who flourished so long ago, is a notable contribution of our first campaign and will be hailed by all students of early civilization. Not only on local affairs, but on ethnic and international relations, these documents will shed much-needed light...
...current, New Republic invests Boston with a purpose, namely, the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. It attributes this purpose to what it, editorially, takes to be the real Boston, an "ethnic minority" conscious that the prisoners are communists and foreigners. It contrasts this state of things with the political temper of Chicago where it finds, an agglomerate ethnic majority, conscious that another and more aristocratic portion of the city is Anglo-Saxon and descend from grandparents native born, has just elected as mayor, one who jollied and humored them...
...simply faced the fact-"The small family has come to stay"-and queried the future: "Will the task ahead be easier because of our ethnic complexity and a corresponding dilution of our more homogeneous elements, or shall we be confronted with unheard-of problems that will test the optimism of the most hopeful...
After it is admitted that there are no grounds for objection to continued immigration on ethnic or engenic grounds, two very potent arguments for restriction still remain unshradded. In the latter portion of the last century, when large numbers of immigrants first began coming to this country, there was a vast quantity of free land which could not be cultivated because of the smallness of the population. This land has now been almost completely occupied, and a continued admission of new arrivals will accomplish little but an approximation of the crowded state of the agricultural areas of Europe...
...truisms about those words. We hear them from preachers and administrators, from Jew bailers and from sentimental philo-Semites. But they have a meaning which as Americans we have yet to penetrate. We cannot have tolerance until we recognize the real issues involved, until we perceive why social and ethnic prejudices persist, why Jew and non-Jew cannot get together and have "plain talk and high thinking" without being hampered by stultifying self-consciousness. And we are Harvard men, too; can we not reason together on that basis, and in respect for the tradition we all love, instead of skulking...