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...support a proposed $98,000 budget for the new U. S. Department of Music & Fine Arts. The teachers managed to agree, and raised $1,100. They showed less agreement but much more emotion when Leo Fischer, executive secretary of the American Guild of Musical Artists, appealed for the Dickstein Bill which aims to limit foreign competition with U. S. artists...
...last week went Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, not to sing but to lobby. As president of American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc., Mr. Tibbett sought the ear of the House Immigration Committee. Chairman of that committee is a citizen of Manhattan's lower East Side named Samuel Dickstein, who made his political reputation framing tenement and kosher food laws. Mr. Tibbett had come to persuade Mr. Dickstein & committee that the present arrangement by which foreign musical artists are permitted to perform in the U. S. is far from kosher to the musical profession...
...incident and Federal action to force a license for "Mr. K." from Mayor LaGuardia, the only result was that the Mayor said he "would abide by the State Department's decision" if it should rule on "Mr. K." To Germans it was occult that New York Representative Samuel Dickstein should have risen in Congress latt week to call Realmleader Hitler a madman, a mur derer and the protagonist of an insane theory of government. They saw the in visible hand of Jewry in a proposal by a New York City alderman to forbid public showing of the swastika...
...Heard Texas' big, blatant Blanton and New York's small, publicity-loving Dickstein threaten to pound each other to a pulp in a quarrel on the issue of admitting foreign Boy Scouts into the U. S. without payment of visa fees...
...expected that any material gathered here by the Hearst papers will be included in their appeal to the McCormack-Dickstein Senate Committee, investigating un-American activities, to oppose communism in all its manifestations...