Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Immigration Commissioner Husband has better information. Said he: "I do not know how the immigration law can be blamed for a labor shortage, when during the next two or three months the quota of Germany will permit immigration of 39,000; that of the United Kingdom, 17,000; Sweden, 7,500; and Norway, 5,000. These are the countries from which factory workers have come in the largest numbers...
...Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, there opened the 22nd Annual International Exhibition. Its aim: to "tell the news of art in the world today." Countries represented: Sweden, Norway, Holland, Denmark, England, France, Spain, Belgium, United States. Individual paintings include works of all schools by leading artists of each. Spain alone is handicapped. Two of her greatest contemporary artists-Zuloaga and Sorolla-could not contribute. Sorolla has been stricken with paralysis and cannot paint again...
...France justified in the Ruhr? Yes-713. No-326. These are the opinions of distinguished lawyers, bankers, educators, etc., and are not taken as representative of popular feeling. " Uncle Sam's Voters" headed by Ira Nelson Morris, ex-Chicago packer and recent U. S. Minister to Sweden-is the latest effort to rouse the American people from their apathy toward national affairs...
Students from the universities of Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Holland, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and England were officially present at the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants held recently at the Hague. Students from Hungary, Ireland and Latvia also attended, as did Russian Emigre students. The question of German participation was referred to the various national unions. The C. I. E. was formed in Strasbourg in 1919 "for conference about matters of educational and social interest and joint action for the furtherance of their common aims." All religious and political questions are barred. The Confederation is now convened...
...year which began on July 1, 1922, it is possible to foresee the general trend of the entire year's immigration. Three-quarters of the countries from which immigrants come to the United States have already filled their maximum quota under the 3% law. Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Sweden, France and Austria are the principal nations which have not yet filled their annual quotas. But of these, all except Germany have filled more than seven-twelfths of their allotment, and will probably complete their quota before the year is out. Germany, with an allowance of 67,607, landed only...