Restriction of Western Hemisphere Immigration...: Hearings...on S. 1296, a Bill to Amend the Immigration Act of 1924, and S. 1437, a Bill to Subject Certain Immigrants...and S. 3019, a Bill to Amend the Immigration Laws...1928 - 192 pages |
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... Federal employment offices under the direction of Francis I. Jones , Washington , D. C. , throughout the West , Middle West , and South , to locate surplus labor of the class that would do the work that we have to offer . In our efforts ...
... Federal employment offices under the direction of Francis I. Jones , Washington , D. C. , throughout the West , Middle West , and South , to locate surplus labor of the class that would do the work that we have to offer . In our efforts ...
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... Federal Government . This is turn reacted on the Porto Rican as a class to make them in many ways a much more difficult problem to handle from a social settlement standpoint than is the Mexican by reason of the fact that the Porto Rican ...
... Federal Government . This is turn reacted on the Porto Rican as a class to make them in many ways a much more difficult problem to handle from a social settlement standpoint than is the Mexican by reason of the fact that the Porto Rican ...
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... Federal regulation , there is an annual labor shortage with consequent economic loss to the producer and the . consumer . Further restriction and particularly such restriction as would result from an extension of the quota provisions of ...
... Federal regulation , there is an annual labor shortage with consequent economic loss to the producer and the . consumer . Further restriction and particularly such restriction as would result from an extension of the quota provisions of ...
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... Federal Government . It is recognized that the Salt River Valley project under the great Roosevelt Dam has proved one of the most successful reclamation projects in the repayment of its obliga- tions to the Federal Government and in ...
... Federal Government . It is recognized that the Salt River Valley project under the great Roosevelt Dam has proved one of the most successful reclamation projects in the repayment of its obliga- tions to the Federal Government and in ...
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... Federal employment offices I offered to take approximately 4,000 of the Mississippi Valley flood sufferers , who were then being maintained in refuge camps by the national Red Cross and other agencies , and bring them to the Salt River ...
... Federal employment offices I offered to take approximately 4,000 of the Mississippi Valley flood sufferers , who were then being maintained in refuge camps by the national Red Cross and other agencies , and bring them to the Salt River ...
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Page 96 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic...
Page 3 - An immigrant who continuously for at least two years immediately preceding the time of his application for admission to the United States has been, and who seeks to enter the United States solely for the purpose of, carrying on the vocation of minister of any religious denomination, or professor of a college, academy, seminary, or university and his wife, and his unmarried children under 18 years of age, if accompany or following to join him...
Page 96 - In view of the existing depression in agriculture, the Commission is hereby directed to effect with the least practicable delay such lawful changes in the rate structure of the country as will promote the freedom of movement by common carriers of the products of agriculture affected by that depression, including livestock, at the lowest possible lawful rate compatible with the maintenance of adequate transportation service...
Page 2 - The annual quota of any nationality for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1927, and for each fiscal year thereafter, shall be a number which bears the same ratio to 150,000 as the number of inhabitants in continental United States in 1920...
Page 2 - States, who is returning from a temporary visit abroad ; (c) An immigrant who was born in the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Republic of Mexico, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Canal Zone, or an independent country of Central or South America, and his wife, and his unmarried children under 18 years of age, if accompanying or following to join him...
Page 2 - The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor, jointly...
Page 2 - The annual quota of any nationality shall be 2 per centum of the number of foreign-born individuals of such nationality resident in continental United States as determined by the United States census of 1890, but the minimum quota of any nationality shall be 100.
Page 4 - No vessel shall be granted clearance pending the determination of the liability to the payment of such fine, or while the fine remains unpaid, except that clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such question upon the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover such fine, or of a bond with sufficient surety to secure the payment thereof approved by the collector of customs.
Page 2 - For the purpose of subdivisions (b) and (c) the term "inhabitants in continental United States in 1920 " does not include (1) immigrants from the geographical areas specified in subdivision (c) of section 4 or their descendants, (2) aliens ineligible to citizenship or their descendants, (3) the descendants of slave immigrants, or (4) the descendants of American aborigines.
Page 3 - The validity of an immigration visa shall expire at the end of such period, specified in the immigration visa, not exceeding four months, as shall be by regulations prescribed. In the case of an immigrant arriving in...