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  2. Colonial Service - Wikipedia

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    The Colonial Administrative Service represented the authority of the colonial government in all respects. It was an elite of generalists, people mostly with University or other higher education qualifications, and appointments were made after selection interviews intended to assess candidates’ personality, character and motivation.

  3. History of courtship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Dancing, always a popular courting activity, became the most popular pastime in the 1920s, both in high school and college. [8]: 293–296 Numerous dances were held at colleges, usually by fraternities. A common feature at these dances in the 1920s was the "stag line", young men who would "cut in" to take another man's partner. Frequent cut-ins ...

  4. History of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan - Wikipedia

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    The colonial administration, as it consolidated its southern position in the 1920s, detached the south from the rest of Sudan for all practical purposes. The period's "closed door" ordinances, which barred northern Sudanese from entering or working in the south, reinforced this separate development policy.

  5. Palestine Police Force - Wikipedia

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    The Palestine Police Force was a British colonial police service established in Mandatory Palestine on 1 July 1920, [1] when High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel's civil administration took over responsibility for security from General Allenby's Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (South). [2]

  6. Colonial Office - Wikipedia

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    The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created in 1768 from the Southern Department to deal with colonial affairs in North America (particularly the Thirteen Colonies, as well as, the Canadian territories recently won from France), until merged into the new Home ...

  7. East Africa Protectorate - Wikipedia

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    On 23 July 1920, the inland areas of the protectorate were annexed as British dominions by Order in Council. [8] That part of the former protectorate was thereby constituted as the Colony of Kenya . The remaining 16-kilometre-wide (10 mi) coastal strip (with the exception of Witu ), remained a protectorate under an agreement with the Sultan of ...

  8. History of immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    Colonial-era immigrants often repaid the cost of transoceanic transportation by becoming indentured servants in which the new employer paid the ship's captain. In the late 19th century, immigration from China and Japan was restricted. In the 1920s, restrictive immigration quotas were imposed but political refugees had special status.

  9. Court uniform and dress in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Members of the diplomatic and consular services had the same embroidery on the collar and cuffs as on the full-dress blue coatee, but worked on (detachable) white cloth panels. Members of the colonial service, on the other hand, wore dark blue gorget patches with gold braid, which varied according to rank (as did the number of buttons on the cuff).