The Huddled Masses: This history of the 'new immigration' weighs the many factors that prompted the decision to leave the old world. Though the designation 'new immigrant' generally refers to southern and eastern Europeans only, this volume also includes the Chinese and Japanese who arrived in the period from 1880-1921. Kraut argues that immigration to America was but one of the many choices available to the immigrants, and that individual aptitude and desires were just as influential as cultural, social, and familial pressures to find a better life. The immigrants' impact on America and their new countrymen is also considered. Includes a very good, 32-page photographic essay

Letter: Fighting back - Naples Daily News


Letter: Fighting back
Naples Daily News
They are not looking out for the huddled masses except for an occasional show card. If you want to see an extra bounce in the step of clergymen observe them at events or in the meet and greet as they posture for big donors. Listen to the messages of ...

Nigel Farage offers Tories a deal on Europe: it's an opportunity and a pitfall ... - Telegraph.co.uk (blog)


Nigel Farage offers Tories a deal on Europe: it's an opportunity and a pitfall ...
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Ed Miliband is convinced the path to Downing Street lies across Nick Clegg's lawn, and is nervous about adopting any strategy that would unsettle the huddled masses of Lib Dem refugees that decamped to Labour in the wake of the Great Betrayal of 2010.

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More Hypocrisy From GOP's Crack Team of Health Care Con Artists - Huffington Post


More Hypocrisy From GOP's Crack Team of Health Care Con Artists
Huffington Post
... uninsured families a single strand of hope: while the GOP has no intention of crafting actual legislation that could help actual people, which the ACA does every day, the Republicans may deign to share their "vision" with the huddled masses.

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Don't cry for Auntie Zeituni - Boston Herald


Don't cry for Auntie Zeituni
Boston Herald
Forget the huddled masses yearning to “breathe free.” Now the huddled masses demand to “live free.” Speaking of “the homeless, tempest-tost,” Uncle Omar gets his driver's license back today. I hope nobody at the registry is even thinking of slapping ...

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Facebook IPO: No 'Beatlemania' in Europe, Asia - CNNMoney


Facebook IPO: No 'Beatlemania' in Europe, Asia
CNNMoney
Facebook has allocated some shares to online brokerage E*Trade, a sign that it realizes there is strong demand from the huddled masses. Heck, CNNMoney is even trying to buy some shares. (We only plan to hold the stock for a week and if we have any ...

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PRUDEN: Nary kiss nor hug for the blind activist in China - Washington Times


Washington Times

PRUDEN: Nary kiss nor hug for the blind activist in China
Washington Times
... Barack Obama says he agrees with Abraham Lincoln (you could ask him) that America is “the exceptional nation,” a nation unique in a world of moral squalor, a beacon of hope for the “tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

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The Dirty Little Secret of HBO's Game of Thrones: The People Don't Want War - TIME (blog)


TIME (blog)

The Dirty Little Secret of HBO's Game of Thrones: The People Don't Want War
TIME (blog)
The truly subversive answer, periodically revealed throughout the series — and in the George RR Martin books on which it's based — is that the “smallfolk,” as the huddled masses are known, don't really give a toss about the outcome of the epic power ...

Like it or not, America is becoming a post-white nation - Telegraph.co.uk (blog)


Like it or not, America is becoming a post-white nation
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
The huddled masses have become truly global in their origins. The implications of this have been clear for some time but will soon stare us in the face. Not only is England no longer seen as the Mother Country; it is rarely these days even counted as ...

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Brooklyn Nets' Neighborhood-Centric Video Applauds The 'Loyal' And 'Scrappy' - CBS Local


CBS Local

Brooklyn Nets' Neighborhood-Centric Video Applauds The 'Loyal' And 'Scrappy'
CBS Local
If that wasn't enough indication of Brooklyn's newest team going all in on the borough, we have Exhibit B. The franchise released a video, in which they pay homage to “the huddled masses,” “the folks on the stoop,” the “underdogs and the unsung.

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The American Dream shouldn't be a case of Mission: Impossible - Patriot-News


Patriot-News

The American Dream shouldn't be a case of Mission: Impossible
Patriot-News
The US has always been a beacon of light for the tired, the poor and the huddled masses yearning to be free. When every citizen stands up for the values we all believe in and treasure as a fair and just society, we will regain our soul as a nation of ...