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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Representative T. Fred Cline introduced a bill in the Missouri House of Representativesauthorizing up to $15,000 to purchase the house as a shrine. Republican Floor Leader William Cruce promptly pointed out that it was "a decrepit old house," and the whole property was assessed at only $600. Protested Cline: "There is a sentimental value. A lady buys antiques at 40 to 50 times their value because there is a sentimental value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Question of Sentiment | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Despite a few unpleasant remarks from the G.O.P. side, the bill seemed sure to pass the House; the Senate still had to act. Meanwhile, a visitor could get to see the inside by buying a souvenir postcard off Everett Earp; if he bought more than 50? worth Earp would show him the room where Harry S. Truman was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Question of Sentiment | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...pattern of discrimination and intolerance." The D.P. Commission had declared it "all but unworkable," because it excluded thousands of Jews and Catholics. In nine months of operation, only 34,569 had been admitted out of a two-year quota of 205,000. Last week an Administration bill to admit 339,000 D.P.s in the next two years under more generous provisions reached the floor of the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Discrimination and intolerance soon had a spokesman. Bellowed Texas' Ed Gossett: "The bill rewards the least deserving, the least desirable and the most dangerous of all people who would like to come to this country. . . The cream has been skimmed off those camps time & time & time again," until only "the dregs were left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...House promptly slapped Ed Gossett and passed the bill with a resounding voice vote. But the bill had a clouded future as it went to the Senate Judiciary Committee. There, by interminable secret hearings, bovine deliberateness, and dogged delay, Nevada's silver-haired Pat McCarran had been earnestly sabotaging any revision in the D.P. restrictions. He had pigeonholed one bill, introduced one of his own which nominally increased the number of admissions but kept all the unworkable restrictions. It was only a one-man show, but so far, it had been enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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