Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
About 3,500 new clerks will have to be employed?the greater portion of them, 2,800, by the War Department which has to go over the records of 5,250,000 men, now encased in 7,066 steel filing cabinets, weighing 1,080 tons and occupying 2.36 acres of floor space in the old Washington Barracks arsenal. More clerks could profitably be employed, except that they could not get at the cabinets. On each application 27 checking operations have to be made. The matter will be complicated by the fact that the files include 50,328 Smiths...
...cities. Every bit of land would produce whatever it was best fitted for. Likewise a gigantic civil service would put every man in his proper place. If a few odd hundreds of thousands of acres of land were needed to furnish next year's wheat supply, the exact portion of the world best suited for that purpose would be so used. An agricultural army, recruited at whatever wages were necessary to secure the requisite numbers, would move out from the cities in the Spring, perform the necessary work, proceed to another area to do a different kind of work...
Prolonged sporadic discussions followed. Britain agreed to cede a larger portion of her holding in East Africa, if Italy would accept the adjustment as final settlement of all issues, affecting Italy, that were raised at the Peace Conference. It was this final British condition that delayed Jubaland negotiations to the present date...
There is drama in all things, even in misunderstanding. Last week a Senator (Harreld of Oklahoma) walked into the Senate while a vote was in progress. His name was called. He answered "Aye." One portion of the House smiled triumphantly-they knew that this one vote gave them victory. But the Senator who had been out of the Chamber began to think-he had misunderstood how the question was put. He rose and altered his vote from "Aye" to "Nay." The bill was beaten. One set of faces ceased to smile, another set began. This was what happened when...