Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National Origins. This was not a scientific way to filter aliens into the U. S if the original native stock of the country was to be preserved. The 1924 law therefore carried a provision for the establishment of quotas based on National Origins Scientists were to determine the racial composition of the present day U. S., starting from the first U. S. census (1790. pop 3,900,000), analyzing the growth of population to date with reference to national ancestries and thus, in effect, fixing the proportion each foreign country contributed to U.S. "native stock" and the development of that...
Postponement. The British burned most early U. S. census details in the sack of Washington in 1814. Native stock, clear in the early days, was blurred by intermarriage with alien newcomers. Historical data is scant or unreliable. Racial names have become meaningless through social changes. So the 2Oth Century scientists bogged down in confusion and Congress in 1927, postponed the effective date of National Origins to July 1, 1928; later to July 1, 1929, where it now remains...
...Francisco financial circles were last week agitated over the decision of the San Francisco Grain Trade Association to establish a securities trading department. Inasmuch as San Francisco already has a Stock Exchange, a Curb and a Mining Exchange, it might appear that San Franciscans have already ample opportunity to play the market. So rapidly is the main Exchange growing, indeed, that Coast authorities claim it has passed Chicago and ranks as the second largest U. S. board. The Grain Trade Association, nevertheless, despite the opposition of its parent body, the Chamber of Commerce, has decided to organize an additional trading...
...Wright aeronautical stock has been selling for $275 a share. Directors last week declared a 100% dividend...
Douglas Elton Fairbanks was fired from a Denver office where he tilled inkwells because in odd moments he broke furniture, stood on his head. In a stock company and later as a juvenile on Broadway he found that public disorder could be profitable. In 1907 he married one Anna Beth Sully, daughter and heir of a soapmaker who stipulated that Fairbanks must superintend his boiling grease-vats. Six months later Fairbanks returned to the stage, was divorced in 1918, married Mary Pickford in 1920. Once, locked out of his room in the Plaza Hotel, Manhattan, he climbed up the face...