[ inaudible ] im sorry. Can you just remind me . It was passed in 1902, made permanent in 1904 and it was repealed finally in 1943 during world war ii largely because china was our ally and yet when it was repealed it set a quota of 105 a year, so it was not really repealed. Its not until 1960 that immigration opens up for the chinese. 1882. Yes . So there were sympathetic views among the working class so the people who excluded wanted them excluded were not the working class or not voters, and was there anyone in china who had any voice, any power at all to respond. China at this point was an extremely weak country. It was on the verge of being dominated by japan. This is really when japans rise over asia is really just emerging. And china actually wants u. S. Friendship as a bulwark against the japanese and a lot of European Countries are going into china not to colonize it per se, but to force trade on them. So china is looking for u. S. Friendship to keep this open door, as its cal
This is 40 minutes. It is a great pleasure to introduce today and welcome jeffrey immelt, the chairman and ceo of general electric, our newest corporate citizen. Dartmouthated from with a degree in applied sciences and went to harvard to get his mba. He spent his first 19 years at ge in Global Leadership ts biggestof i businesses including appliances, plastics, health care. , he succeeded jack welsh as the ceo. It is been said it is easier to succeed and inadequate ceo than an adequate one. So he had his work cut out for him. He succeeded the role four days before the 9 11 attacks. Nevertheless, in the 14. 5 years ge, hes been the ceo of has transformed the company by focusing on energy, health care, and transportation. Aeating its core as Materials Company manufacturing jet engines, locomotives, gas turbines, and mri scanners. In that process he has divested nba, nbc universal, and appliances. More recently, is selling ge capital which until a few years ago was responsible for 50 of t
Nd treating its core as a Materials Company manufacturing locomotives, gas scanners. Nd mri longer a Consumer Products company. Rather a hightech company. Cture he wants its hard to imagine in this new world of big data happening to the manufacturing process and the workers. Better skilled right now, ge data show that a less than 5 labor. A refrigerator has less than two labor. F the talk in the industry is that a ge plant years, will have but two custodians, a and a dog. The man will be there to feed dog will be he there to keep the dog away from the equipment. Aughter] applause] wow. Exciting. Thats great. Would note that you had a longer lon than i did. We still have plenty of manufacturing jobs in lind. Let me worry about the manufacturing. Bob is a lawyer. Laughter] so its a pleasure and honor to be with you. Thank you very much. Its great to be here. I think one of the questions where minds of people is you might locate your headquarterses. I believe you announced that earlier to
This last batch of rain comes through the area, still lingering flooding in Gloucester County, Camden County, part of burlington, philadelphia, delaware counties, under Coastal Flood Advisory until 6 00. For another hurt and then 6 45 Lancaster County for the high tide of bodies of water there. Still 57 degrees, but we have 21mile an hour wind, at some point, during this hour, 48 degrees, in mount pocono, in the 50s, everywhere else, but temperatures will fall as we mentioned yesterday, throughout the day as soon as the last of the cold front has passed so we have temperatures falling, winds picking up. So as temperatures drop, the winds pick up. We will see little bit of sunshine. A loft clouds will linger, 32 degrees in the overnight hours it, will get cold once again. My husband thought he was going blow off the bridge the winds were so bad, you real had i to hold on. Those winds will be with us today, knocking over construction signs, i tell you what, everybody was in the bed last
Wb, ur, bostons npr news station. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Im sure some of you are saying, wow, thats bob oakes . This. [laughter] i thought he was taller, i thought he was thinner, i thought he had more hair, and, you know, the funny thing is that all those things were true last week. [laughter] let me thank all of you for coming here this afternoon and thank the boston book festival for having us. Dont they do a nice job . Isnt this a atlantic event . A terrific event . [applause] lets also thank the Plymouth Rock foundation for sponsoring this particular session and say that without their generosity, it would be hard to put on events like this that add to the cultural life that we all enjoy in this great city, so thanks to them. [applause] and in a way thats what were here to talk about this afternoon, the triumph of this city and all the cities, the triumph of the city, thats the title of harvard economics professor ed glaesers book, its about whats made cities around the w