Word: sented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...five year maximum sentence for all violations of the Volstead Act, thereby making any infraction of this law a felony whereas before minor first offenses had been only misdemeanors* Several misdemeanors are necessary to deport an undesirable alien. For one felony he may be sent promptly out of the U.S. By this penal change alien bootleggers may be shipped swiftly from the country...
Changes Involved. Last week President Coolidge sent to Congress the final "scientific" figures, showing what would happen under National Origins. No great numerical difference would mark the change. At present the 2% quota system admits about 164,000 immigrants per year. Under National Origins about 153,000 aliens-150,000 as set in the law, plus the 100 minimum allowance to all countries-would come in. There would, however, be a marked change in the composition of U. S. immigration...
Second was the Bishop of Spokane, the Rt. Rev. Edward Makin Cross, tall, slender and grey-eyed. Last week he was 49. Bishop Cross sent his regrets to Philadelphia because-he preferred to remain in Spokane...
...while the empty tin cans were piling up on either side of the track, Trotsky amused himself by re-reading several works by Anatole France, famed and precious French scoffer. When, in obedience to fresh orders from Moscow, the Trotskys were booted into Turkey (TIME, Feb. 11), Comrade Trotsky sent the following note to Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Pasha: "I was brought here against my will...
...return of Nazimova to her rightful position among the great of the speaking stage is another achievement of the amazing Miss Le Gallienne. Nazimova was born in the Crimea in 1879. Her cultured parents sent her to Moscow to study music, eventually to take up drama as a pupil of Stanislavsky. She excelled almost immediately. She reached New York in 1905 with a Russian company that played East Side theatres and eventually stranded...