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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...
Argentina is the melting pot of South America. Article XXV of the Argentine Constitution provides: "The Federal Government shall encourage European immigration and shall not restrict, limit, or place any tax upon the entry into Argentine territory of foreigners who come with the object of cultivating the soil and engaging in local industries...
...that he may fall into a torpor. . . . They must get Mr. Goodman eating or their play will collapse'. ... A sharp pruning knife. however, especially if Mr. Goodman can be sent to Italy to eat some food, will work wonders. . . . But the gastronomic Mr. Goodman must be induced to restrict his attention to his tummy...
...Edward revealed for the first time, the nature of his own agreements with France. Said Viscount Grey: The naval conversations (with France) had prepared for the present an effective cooperation of the two powers in case of war, but, it has always been understood that these agreements did not "restrict the freedom of either government to decide at any future time whether or not to assist the other by armed force...
...been said that the nine men on the Supreme Court at Washington are the real rulers of this country. Be that as it may, their position is such that the alert U. S. citizen should know the extent of their power. Though both the present volumes are concerned with restricting the business of the Supreme Court they do not propose to restrict its jurisdiction, but rather the amount of its work, so that the Court may be increasingly powerful. Hughes emphasizes the Court's deliberate determination to confine itself to its judicial task (maintaining of course its authority...