Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was discussing the German-Austrian influx last week (see p. 9) her subordinates at Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco were wrestling with a Chinese refugee problem. Wives and children of U. S. Chinese are admitted under citizenship laws. They are now filtering across the Pacific at a rate of 225 per month...
With 700,000 oppressed Jews to succor, this first offer was only a drop in the great bucket of the Jewish colonization problem...
...problem of the lack of positions open to new settlers because the climate does not permit them to work in mines, and the fact that new settlers have to replace English executives already in charge of the mines, again preclude any hope of a large number of refugees finding work in the mines...
...time, he was the first man to volunteer as a policeman in the Boston Police Strike. He played an instrumental part in the organization of the Cambridge municipal golf club. If all Harvard entertained such a sympathetic attitude toward the outside world, there would be no town-gown problem...
...solve his problem, Mr. Rice places Frank Dale, a Captain in the Spanish-American War, as the last male member of an old American family in the town which bears his grand-father's name, Dalesford, Connecticut. Captain Dale can no longer run his shoe factory at a profit, and his farm produces next to nothing; seventy-four years old, he wishes to liquidate what few assets he has, move his daughter-in-law and grand-daughters to Florida, and spend his last days peacefully in the sun. When he has made his decision, the embodied ghosts of his progenitors...