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" All aliens over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish... "
Restriction of Immigration: Hearings Before the Committee on Immigration and ... - Page 552
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization - 1924 - 1175 pages
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Hertslet's Commercial Treaties: A Collection of Treaties and ..., Volume 30

Great Britain. Foreign Office - Commercial treaties - 1924 - 1194 pages
...persons shall f:lso be excluded from admission thereto, to wit: — VOL. xxx 3 u 2 All aliens over 16 years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish: Provided that any admissible...
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New Outlook, Volume 121

1919 - 902 pages
...our immigration laws since 1914. They now provide a literacy test ruling out "all aliens over sixteen years of age physically capable of reading who cannot read the English language or some other language or dialect." That alters things considerably. Then, too, governments...
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The New England Magazine, Volume 34; Volume 40

New England - 1906 - 788 pages
...might have been reduced 30 per * A bill presented to the 57th Congress called for the exclusion of "all persons over fifteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read the English language or some other language ; but an admi<sible immigrant, or a person now in or hereafter admitted...
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The New International Year Book

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1917 - 948 pages
...House of Representatives in April by a vote of 308 to 87. The literacy test excludes all aliens over 16 years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read the English language, or any other language, including Hebrew or Yiddish, providing that any admissible alien or...
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American Public Opinion

James Davenport Whelpley - History - 1914 - 296 pages
...following persons shall also be excluded from admission thereto, to wit— " All aliens over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish; provided, that any admissible...
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The Living Age, Volume 281

1914 - 884 pages
...following persons shall also be excluded from admission thereto, to wit:— "All aliens over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish ; provided, that any admissible...
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Annual report of the State Hospital Commission. 1916

1916 - 702 pages
...the following persons shall also be excluded from admission thereto, to wit: All nliens over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish: Provided, That any admissible...
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Annual Report, Issue 27

New York (State). State Hospital Commission - Mental illness - 1916 - 686 pages
...the following persons shall also be excluded from admission thereto, to wit: All aliens over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish: Provided, That any admissible...
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Proceedings of the Annual Convention ..., Volumes 10-14

Cotton manufacture - 1916 - 660 pages
...is to exclude illiterate aliens. It reads in part as follows, shall be excluded, "All aliens over 16 years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish." It is generally thought...
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The Tide of Immigration

Frank Julian Warne - United States - 1916 - 412 pages
...both to read and write. In the bills vetoed by Presidents Taft and Wilson "all aliens over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish," were to be excluded. For...
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