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Although Senator Herbert Lehman and Representative Emanuel Celler, both Democrats, have introduced a revised omnibus immigration bill, neither the House nor the Senate will consider supporting it. Because it is politically dangerous to arouse the conservatives who do not want the "mongrelizing" effects of increased immigration, the United States today maintains a 30-year-old policy symbolic of the blazing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Statue of Liberty Reconsidered | 4/22/1955 | See Source »

Winthrop has improved most noticeably ever last year's top four teams. A year ago the Puritans placed near the celler in both A and B leagues. Leverett won A while Dunster finished first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Races Close in Hockey, Basketball | 2/11/1955 | See Source »

...York's New Dealing Representative Emanuel Celler cited the fact that he would become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee as an argument for electing a Democratic Congress this fall. Accusing Defense Secretary Charles Wilson of favoritism in awarding defense contracts, Celler cried: "I promise you, Wilson, that when I become chairman of the Judiciary Committee, I shall investigate you, General Motors, General Electric and Westinghouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What They Say | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Umbrellas to Mend. While the Commerce Committee was giving them what they wanted, a Judiciary subcommittee headed by Brooklyn's anti-Fair Trade Emanuel Celler held hearings on a similar bill. Witness Rivers Peterson, managing director of the National Retail Hardware Association, cried that the small retailer is entitled to protection "from exploitation on the part of the predatory price-cutter," just as labor is protected by minimum-wage laws. Retorted the American Farm Bureau Federation's Matt Trigg: Such devices provide "an umbrella for the inefficient" and are inconsistent with a free, competitive economy. Echoed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Victory for Fair Trade? | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...Three: an 85,000-ton Texas plant for Alcoa, a 120,000-ton expansion for Kaiser, 20,000 tons of new capacity for Reynolds at Longview, Wash. Total approved expansion for the Big Three since Korea: 545,000 tons. Approved expansion by newcomers: 0. Even Manny Celler and the Justice Department had finally come around to the view that if the U.S. wanted more aluminum fast, it had to go to the people who had the money and experience to produce it fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: Blockade Busting | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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