Word: pots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last some of the less lovely ingredients in this melting pot of nations have made their presence felt to such an extent that the newspapers bring up the question of the immigration laws, and the carrying-out thereof. The pot itself is being looked into, and the curious are wondering how some of the things in it got there. The answer seems to be laxness due to over-hurriedness in examination, and a great deal of smuggling. It is stated that ninety-five per cent of those admitted either temporarily or under bond in the past have forfeited their bonds...
...time must come when the pot shall be taken off the fire for a time, and the scum skimmed from the surface. By means of the three-percent Bill of 1921, the quantity of immigrants was limited, but the result has been to increase the number slipping in over the borders of Canada and Mexico, or slipping past the officials. It is a biological fallacy that we can assimilate indefinitely the vast numbers of immigrants of a different race which are continually pouring into the United States. When the nationalities of the immigrants corresponded to those already here, and when...
...rate, Powell does not believe they (Negro spirituals) can justly be made the basis of a national American school -because, he declares, there is not the least kinship between the Negro and the descendants of the first English settlers, who still are presumed to boil highest in our melting pot. Mr. Powell favors using the ' Lonesome Tunes' of the Tennessee and Carolina mountains for the basis, if such there is to be. The strange melodies are genuinely of 'our people,' he points out, and of a strange and lasting fascination...
Since the exodus of Kaiser Wilhelm, periodic rumors of revolt have kept the German pot a-boiling. German Ministries have ebbed and flowed but only one bubble in the pot has come to the surface the Kapp Pusch of 1920. This bubble was soon burst. In the alchemy of internal turmoil, the characteristics of Prussia have changed places with those of Bavaria and Saxony. Berlin beams with sunny cordiality, while Munich and Dresden are lowering with political ferment...
...official investigation into the deaths, Chien Ah-Li, a discharged cook, said that his fellow conspirator, Pi Ho-Song, stole a bottle containing a white powder from the chemical laboratory of the school and dumped the contents into the rice pot. It appears that both men were recently discharged and took this simple way of giving vent to their grievance...