... of blacks. The Klan received approximately five million members by 1923. However, such fears stirred up American attitudes towards immigrants and immigration restriction laws were immediately passed. In 1917, a literary test was enacted for all immigrants that wanted to enter the US. This would work since most immigrants were poor and could not afford English lessons ("How and Why ... could be afforded by the general public. The car industry expanded other industries such as rubber, steel, glass, oil, garages, batteries, and road building which increased employment dramatically. New adve...

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... full support and encouragement of his parents. He attended Harvard from 1911 to 1915, studying literature and writing daily. He eventually joined the editorial board of the Harvard Monthly, a college literary magazine, where he worked with his close friends S. Foster Damon and John Dos Passos. In his senior year he became fascinated by avant-garde art, modernism, and cubism, an interest ... upon his arrival and was completely charmed by the city's bohemian atmosphere and abundance of art and artists. He was particularly impressed by the sketches of Pablo Picasso, whose cubist techniques...

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