Word: supported
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...foreign" element require of us education and deportation respectively. Until these two problems are solved, however, a third measure is immediately necessary. It is the rigid restriction or prohibition of immigration for the next few years. Each time such a bill has appeared in Congress it has secured stronger support, so that the present immigration bill is very likely to become law in the next few months. Its purpose is to safeguard the present and future of America from the dangerous accumulation of material, which the melting pot cannot assimilate. Without such provision, this un-American element may continue...
...Since the last meeting of the Associated Clubs in Pittsburg, the question of the Harvard Endowment Fund has been crystallizing," stated Mr. Burlingham, "and the share of the clubs in this movement is so vital that the matter will receive our very earnest consideration and our heartiest support...
...course sports will go on indefinitely under their own momentum, but unless the attitude of the athletic authorities is definitely know both players and managers will be under a big handicap. The managers will not know how far to plan, and the players will feel the lack of strong support...
...does not yet appear competent to decide the question. Perhaps if we had begun our active discussion a few months earlier, we should now be able more intelligently to accept or refute the principles involved. But the question is still before us, and our duty is plain. We must support every enterprise that undertakes sensible consideration of the idea...
Instead of thoughts of supporting the men after they are discharged, would it not be better to retain them in the army until industry can take care of them? Even though they are tired of military life is not the army preferable to the bread line? Finally, would it not be better for the men, physically and morally, for the Government to support them in the camps, under protected conditions until there was a need for them in the labor market rather than to turn them out, with or without money, to shift for, themselves? Some action must be taken...