Word: exclusionism
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Its 2% quota based on the 1890 census (the present quotas are 3% on the 1910 census) have aroused many foreign groups and nations to protest. But last week's fight centred principally on the provision for absolute exclusion of all aliens ineligible for citizenship, meaning especially Japanese. Secretary...
But California thinks otherwise. A delegation of its citizens appeared before the Senate Immigration Committee to urge total exclusion of the Japanese. James D. Phelan, former Senator, presented the case of the far West.
For the rest there are several rather surprising inclusions and omissions. That Giovanni Papini's "Life of Christ" should have attained such heights of popularity in one scant year of existence is as revealing in one way as la the mention of "The Virginian," which is twenty-two years old...
This has aroused southern and eastern European countries to protest against the "discrimination" of the Johnson bill. Citizens of foreign birth likewise protest against the exclusion of their countrymen. Politically this results in opposition to the bill from the representatives of urban districts such as New York, in which the...
Etchings and engravings, when sold, bring smaller prices and hence smaller commissions to the dealers, and the financial considerations have been the cause of the exclusion.