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Page 88
... higher than they have been accustomed to earning . Unac- quainted with the high cost of living in this country , they feel themselves rich . IMMIGRATION AND UNIONISM 89 If the immigrant has never been 88 EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION.
... higher than they have been accustomed to earning . Unac- quainted with the high cost of living in this country , they feel themselves rich . IMMIGRATION AND UNIONISM 89 If the immigrant has never been 88 EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION.
Page 91
... earning a livelihood and unhampered by family obligations , married men who have left their families temporarily in Europe , or dependents who have been sent for by relatives willing and supposedly able to support them . The wage ...
... earning a livelihood and unhampered by family obligations , married men who have left their families temporarily in Europe , or dependents who have been sent for by relatives willing and supposedly able to support them . The wage ...
Page 94
... earning powers are lessened . They have been unable to lay by the necessary surplus for this period of life and so are more likely to become drifters or vagrants . The economic dif- ferences between them and the native - born widen as ...
... earning powers are lessened . They have been unable to lay by the necessary surplus for this period of life and so are more likely to become drifters or vagrants . The economic dif- ferences between them and the native - born widen as ...
Page 125
... earning power , inability to secure health- ful living conditions and competent medical treatment in sick- ness . It ... earnings , and in production . It means danger from infection to white men who work with and live in close prox ...
... earning power , inability to secure health- ful living conditions and competent medical treatment in sick- ness . It ... earnings , and in production . It means danger from infection to white men who work with and live in close prox ...
Page 137
... earnings may be said to show the degree of his efficiency , speed , and output . Skilled - Eight Occupations . 1. Hours . The Negroes worked longer hours in four of the eight skilled occupations ; in four they worked less hours . Thus ...
... earnings may be said to show the degree of his efficiency , speed , and output . Skilled - Eight Occupations . 1. Hours . The Negroes worked longer hours in four of the eight skilled occupations ; in four they worked less hours . Thus ...
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Page 435 - It is, of course, too early to forecast the means of attaining this last result; but the policy of the Government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire.
Page 369 - The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Page 400 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Page 170 - For contemplation he and valour formed ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
Page 400 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence, she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 462 - A general association of nations must be formed, under specific covenants, for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike...
Page 361 - Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies...
Page 353 - No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Page 384 - ... the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the Government of the United States or of any other organized government, because of his or their official character, or that advocates or teaches the unlawful destruction of property.
Page 19 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.