Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last year 279,678 immigrant and 199,649 nonimmigrant (visiting) aliens were admitted to the U. S. Europe furnished 158,598 permanent immigrants, New World countries 116,177. Asia 3,758. Chief sources were Canada (64,440), Germany (46,751), Mexico (40,154), Great Britain...
...Crime was published serially in a New York daily. Throughout the autumnal mayoralty campaign, candidates aspiring to Mayor Walker's desk filled the newspapers with accusations that Tammany Hall was afraid to prosecute the Rothstein case because Tammany men were too intimately connected with Rothstein's world...
...WORLD COURT In the nine years of its existence, the Permanent Court of International Justice -offspring of the League of Nations-has been the subject of mountainous reams of essay, interminable hours of debate. It has rendered just 17 judgments. In 1920 U. S. Minister to Switzerland Pleasant A. Stovall signed World Court articles of adherence for the U. S. Government, only to have, the U. S. Senate place so many reservations on U. S. participation that other member nations refused to accept the Stovall signature...
Last week the spotlight of world attention focused on another U. S. diplomat. With his pockets stuffed with authorizations from President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson, Jay Pierrepont Moffat, U. S. Chargé D'Affaires at Berne,* traveled from London to Geneva to sign World Court articles of adherence once more...
These signings were really a triumph for ancient and honorable Elihu Root, U. S. elder statesman who spent a furious fortnight last March smoothing World Court-U. S. differences, drafting the Root Formula (TIME, April 1) which in effect left the U. S. entirely free to divorce the World Court instantly at any time after the final diplomatic marriage takes place. The marriage is not yet, the signature of Attaché Moffat was a mere betrothal. There remains U. S. Senate ratification. Washington wiseacres wagered that another year would pass before this is achieved...