Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Legislation. Prohibition was the yeast of the last hours of Congress. The final brew was in two batches...
Changes Involved. Last week President Coolidge sent to Congress the final "scientific" figures, showing what would happen under National Origins. No great numerical difference would mark the change. At present the 2% quota system admits about 164,000 immigrants per year. Under National Origins about 153,000 aliens-150,000 as set in the law, plus the 100 minimum allowance to all countries-would come in. There would, however, be a marked change in the composition of U. S. immigration...
...Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the question is: Shall the white race in Africa plunge down to final destruction?" As alternative General Hertzog offered to Parliament a bill which would deprive the Cape Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote in choosing at least twelve M. P.s heretofore. The Cape Province...
...redeemed, however, by the humor of a gaunt, pop-eyed blackamoor named Stepin Fetchit, cast as "Gummy," laziest of blackamoor husbands. The unpretentious story, genuinely moving at its best, at its worst a kind of Bostonian black-bottom, deals with an old Negro's denial and final acceptance of modern medical methods. Best shots-Gummy, whose feet hurt...
...final testimony X-ray pictures of both paintings were displayed. This comparison interested the jury, delighted the defense. Reason: the Belle's jewelry was invisible in the Louvre Xray. This indicated that the painter of the Louvre Belle had first laid down metallic flesh tints (impermeable by X-rays) then painted the jewelry over them. The practice of blocking out the whole figure before adding ornament is favored by artists working from live models. But in the Hahn X-ray the jewelry was clearly visible suggesting that the Hahn Belle had first been carefully sketched then colored in separate...