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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might almost be called "Secretary of Immigration," for there is his chief interest and there he has accomplished his greatest works. He helped frame the restrictive immigration act of 1924 and he has administered it with scarcely a hitch. He seldom misses an opportunity to write about immigration; and who can do it better than this man who was once pulled out from under a bed in Wales...
...provinces might well be strengthened to prevent Moro-Filipino animosity. Miscellaneous. The Filipino government should withdraw from its private business enterprises immediately. The Jones Act, fundamental law governing the Philippines, should not now be changed. Colonel Thompson's report, comprehensive though it is, produced nothing startling. His recommendations seldom veered from the happy middle ground. Hence, the applause was extensive, well-mannered; there were few jeers or raucous cheers. President Coolidge said that the report was an "exellent one," that he agreed with it for the most part. What will Congress do about it? There will be no time...
...upon his father: "I was removed from the care of Sir Oswald when five years of age by an order of court and placed in the care of my mother, who was legally separated from him. Since that date my father has known nothing of my life and has seldom seen me. So far as I am aware he never contributed to my education or upbringing except in the form of the alimony he was compelled...
...race of life goes seldom to the fleet of foot. More often it is won by some innovator who procures a motorcycle and rides to victory amid envious shouts of "Unfair!" Such an innovator is tall,* big-boned Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen, never a seaman but the world's greatest shipman. He towered to international fame (TIME, Dec. 6) when the Royal Mail Line of which he is Chairman bought the White Star. Last week correspondents enthroned him as a personage by cabling to the world's ends a speech which he made in London before the Institute...
...startling to behold the always opinionated but seldom unsophisticated New York World pitching into "Lampy" (as Harvards call their campus fool) like a Dutch uncle or beard-tweaked rabbi, belaboring the unimportantly obvious. "Now it becomes," said the World, "a painful duty...