He's your basic self-made man, the cream of immigrant stock.
Like most of his peers, the other hungry men who built Hollywood, Mayer came from poor Jewish immigrant stock.
The Immigration Act of 1924 set quotas for European immigrants so that no more than 2% of the 1890 immigrant stocks were allowed into America.
He's both of immigrant stock (Kenya) and the American heartland (Kansas, yet).
On his father's side, he came of German-speaking Jewish immigrant stock.
From German immigrant stock, his parents named him for a regionally known Baptist minister, James Furman.
With France now caught up in one of its periodic waves of xenophobia, it reminded many fully assimilated French that they came from immigrant stock.
Some Jews go in for modern to proclaim that they are new immigrant stock, and see how far they've come!
It was not for nothing that he had spent his youth on the finest flower of the indomitable immigrant stock.
What with resident stock breeding and immigrant stock joining the Reserve, the first decades of Mkomazi's history were dominated by rising cattle populations.