Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well argued that since this country was constructed on Angle-Saxon principles, none but Angle-Saxon immigrants or Northern Europeans closely skin are proper stuff for our "melting pot". By eliminating the fallacious idea that the United States is a "melting pot" and the sentimental idea that every immigrant whatever ought to a welcomed in, the soundness of this argument is apparent. But the immigration law of 1920-1921, which attempted to put this into effect, generalized too far. In the first place, there are certainly individuals from southern Europe who are morally, mentally and physically fitted for citizenship, just...
...First there is the Negro, ten and a half million in number, about a tenth of the whole population. They have not, they cannot attain the Anglo-Saxon level. Both biology and anthropology prove it ... The records, authoritative and unemotionally scientific, show the Negro to be specially susceptible to tuberculosis and alarmingly vitiated by veneral infections . . . There could never be intermarriage between the whites and blacks without God's curse upon our civilization...
...Another absolutely unblendable element is the Jew ... He has been a wanderer upon the face of the earth . . to him patriotism, as the Anglo-Saxon feels it, is impossible. Persecution has been his lot. . . . As a race the Jews are law-abiding. They are physically wholesome stock. . . . They are a family people, reverently and eugenically responsive to God's laws in the home. But their homes are not American...
...George also received a long telegram from William Joseph Simmons, Emperor of the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan, who said he was working for Anglo-Saxon unity...
...Grande Opera Italiana", previously noted in connection with M. Balieff, "Chastoushki", and "The Chorus of the Brothers Zaitzeff", are the most hilarious of the musical numbers, while "A Night at Yard's", and "Ei Ukhnem" are unforgettably dramatic in their relation of Siavic feeling and character. An Anglo Saxon feels as embarrassed listening to the almost barbaric gypsy songs as if he were impersonating Ring Lardner's "wolf crawling into a bathroom window", but the Russians revel in them with genuine ecstasy and abandon. In "The Sudden Death of a Horse", one's ignorance of the language, which...