Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...set a 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...
Quotas. In 1921 the quota system was first applied to restrict European immigration into the U. S. A slot method of admission was set up, its size crudely fixed at 3% of the number of foreign-born U. S. residents enumerated in the Census of 1910. This slot seemed still too large. In 1924 it was closed to 2% of the foreign-born population of the 1890 census...
...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...
When strongly pressed to reveal the name of the first nation outside the continent of Europe on which Pope Pius XI will set foot, the Cardinal-Archbishop reflected for a moment, then answered cautiously, "perhaps Ireland...
Last week this disciple set foot in Manhattan. Clad in a robe of orange silk he stepped softly down America's gangplank in small felt slippers. His eyes behind heavy spectacles were incurious. He is Tai Hsu (pronounced Ty Shü), onetime abbot of the Pai-Yun-Se Temple near Canton, and conceded China's foremost Buddhist...