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Next winter when Congress assembles, the Secretary intends to submit a new immigration bill embodying the features of examination abroad and registration of all immigrants entering this country. He expressed his intent with regard to an immigration policy by saying that what he is seeking is "not a foreign policy, dictated by foreign steamship companies, but an American policy, formulated by and in the interest of the United States...
...long ago Joie Ray, heralded by telegrams and press notices, came to the University intent upon breaking the world's record in the mile run. At that time he failed, but undeterred by the past he is returning to try again after the Yale baseball game tomorrow...
...which Mr. Bradford sets out to give of these seven?as he admits?"paley damaged" and very miscellaneous souls. He makes no attempt to acquit them of their faults, but by showing the light in which they saw themselves, the damage seems more the result of circumstance than of intent...
JOHN BROWN. Like Burr, a man of many schemes, most of them failures; unlike Burr, intent on one end?believing that he had a divine mission. Kindly to animals, kindly to his family, but dominating both and willing to sacrifice them for his purpose, he stirred up a revolt apparently not knowing exactly how he was to succeed, and died on the scaffold believing he was serving his cause...
...separated since the latter's accouchement, 20 years ago. She loved him-but he was a roué-oh such a roué!-so she took her millions and their daughter (his little daughtaire 'e 'ad not seen 'ardly at all) and came to America, intent upon marrying daughter to a nice, clean-cut, young American millionaire, sans blue blood or indiscriminately amorous proclivities...