Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the fact that winter weather put the northern team in its element the University baseball nine triumphed over Bates College 3 to 0 yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. It is difficult to decide whether the batters were frozen by the cold, which was intense, or confounded by the pitching, which was on the whole excellent. The game was called in the eighth inning with only four hits scored, three of which went to the credit of the visitors, the University's only contribution being offered in the third by Owen. Both teams did well in the field, Bates surprisingly...
...Free State Government sent an invitation to the Northern Parliament to join in the formation of an All-Irish Chamber of Commerce. It was stated that the customs barrier will not prove an insuperable obstacle to such a plan...
...attorney, later became General Counsel, and still later President of the Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific (Harriman) Railroads. He feels that these roads would not be fairly treated under Mr. Holden's proposed plan. Mr. Holden's plan provides for four railway systems: (1) The Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington (Hill); (2) The Union Pacific (Harriman) and other minor roads; (3) The Santa Fe; (4) The Southern Pacific (Harriman) and others...
...meaning of his statement is that the bulk of our immigration is now coming from the countries of northern and western Europe. It appears that nearly every nation will fill its quota of immigrants before June 30, or that out of a total of 358,000 immigrants allowed by law, approximately 200,000 will come from northern and western Europe. Of the 200,000, 177,000 have already arrived. These immigrants the commissioner regards as superior because they are racially similar to the original stock of the country, because they tend more than southern Europeans to become citizens, because their...
While this is going on with respect to northern European immigration, southern Europe has already filled its quotas. But this does not mean at all that southern Europeans are being added to the population in proportion to their quotas. The reverse is the fact because of a greater number leaving the country. Italy, for example, has filled her quota of 42,000 immigrants, but judging by immigration in the last two years, about 50,000 Italians will return to their native country, leaving a net decrease of 8,000 in the Italian population here...