Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Problems with Unilateral Disarmament 1921

WHY THE ARMIES CAN NOT DISARM
AS ARISTIDE BRIAND, powerful of frame, with shaggy head and bushy downward curving mustache, arose to state the case of France before the Arms Conference, he seemed to one press correspondent to be a perfect living type of the old-time Western sheriff; and he might well have claimed for his [...]

Cuban Terrorism 1929

THE DRIVE AGAINST CUBAN “TERRORISM”
MACHADO’S “REIGN OF TERROR” is what critics and political opponents of Cuba’s President call his government regime, involving Americans as well as Cubans in a “despotism” that respects neither property nor human rights, and since by treaty the United States holds an “intervention” club over the island Republic, Senator Borah’s Foreign [...]

Problems in Palestine 1929

DIVIDING THE BLAME FOR PALESTINE BLOODSHED
THE ARROGANCE of the so-called Zionist Revolutionists is doubtless a causative factor behind the Moslem outbreaks against the Jews, says The American Hebrew (New York), in apportioning the blame among all those immediately concerned in the blood-letting in Palestine.
Primary responsibility is placed on the British authorities for permitting the opening [...]

Lower Immigration Causes Labor Shortage

IN 1925 NEARLY 17,000 MORE COMMON LABORERS left the United States than came into the country during ten months’ operation of the new 2 per cent. quota immigration law, according to an analysis made by the National Industrial Conference Board, and a recent report of the immigration committee of the National Association of Manufacturers cites [...]

Immigration Stream Drying Up

FOR THE FIRST TIME in our immigration history we lost, in the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1925Â more unskilled workers than we gained. Six European countries failed to fill their allotted quotas, and sixteen received back from the United States more of their own nationals than emigrated to this country.
Is this striking evidence of [...]

Racial Segregation Laws challenged - 1927

NO LAWS MAY PART WHITE AND BLACK - ALL segregation laws, keeping white people out of negro residence sections and negroes out of white sections, are unconstitutional, says the Supreme Court for the second time. Such laws violate the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteeing equal civil rights to persons of all races. Very well, comes the answer [...]

Mellon Tax Reduction Proposals 1927

Debate over the Mellon Tax Reduction Proposal of 1927
THE BATTLE FOR AND AGAINST heavy tax-reduction, which began November 2, when Secretary of the Treasury Mellon recommended a reduction not greater than $225,000,000, “will be between financial and corporation giants,” observes Robert Barry, Washington correspondent of the New York Evening World. Unlike the 1921, 1924, and [...]

American Democracy vs Fascism Debate 1927

SOMETHING LIKE A HEAD-ON COLLISION between Fascism and American democracy seems to some observers to be approaching. Here is our Department of Labor being asked to exclude Count Di Revel, President of the Fascist League of North America, on the ground that his swearing to the Fascist oath makes him an undesirable alien; and a [...]

Problems facing Pres. Harding in 1921

An article taken from “The Literary Digest” of March 5, 1921.
“Just a few” of the complicated diplomatic problems that Warren G. Harding is facing are listed as follows in a Washington dispatch to the New York Tribune (Rep.):

“The Japanese situation growing out of the California land laws, an attempt to smooth over which already has [...]