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...accidental flaw in the bill; it would, as it stood, make it hard for a child born abroad of two U. S. parents to keep its U. S. citizenship. Instead of vetoing the bill the President requested Congress to recall and amend it. The bill's sponsors, Representative Dickstein and Senator Copeland, grumbling at the demand for a change, went to the White House, found that the State Department had found a real flaw. They took the measure back to the Capitol, got Congress to accept a four-word amendment, and two days later the President blessed it with...
...York. Samuel Seabury and many another denounce its Chancellor. Last week the State Department knew that it was going to have more trouble with Dr. Luther. Representative Samuel Dickstein, a small, slick Tammany Democrat from Manhattan's Bowery district, got the House of Representatives to adopt (168-to-31) his resolution to create a special committee to investigate everywhere throughout the land "the extent, character and object of Nazi propaganda in the U. S. and the diffusion within the U. S. of subversive propaganda. . . ." Last winter Congressman Dickstein, who chairmans the House Immigration Committee, went through an unofficial dress...
...nearest parallel to such an investigation as Representative Dickstein is about to launch against a friendly power occurred in 1911. Outraged by stories of pogroms by Tsar Nicholas' whip-wielding Cossacks, the House of Representatives passed a measure repealing the Russian-U. S. trade agreement. President Taft, realizing that there was ammunition for a serious diplomatic explosion, intervened before the bill reached the Senate. Secretary of State Knox announced that the treaty was being abrogated in accordance with its own terms...
Admittedly intended by the Actors Equity as an economic measure, the Dickstein bill is one of the more ridiculous attempts in recent years at the perversion of the legislative function to private ends. In the first place, as an economic measure the bill's validity is practically nil, since the present number of foreign actors in the United States is surely not so enormous as to hinder the possible employment of local talent now out of work. Even as a bit of private weaseling the bill is pitifully transparent. On the one hand, it is a sop to the actors...
That curious contribution of the actors of America to the new economic nationalism, the Dickstein bill, which would limit the employment of foreign actors to those "of distinguished merit and ability" and to those whose "professional engagements are of a character requiring superior talent" has just been reported back to the House by the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization for final consideration...