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...visitor at the President's office was Representative Samuel Dickstein, chairman of the House Immigration Committee who comes from Manhattan's lower East Side and is celebrated for formulating kosher food laws. He had just initiated, at a secret session of his committee, a Congressional investigation of Nazi propaganda in the U. S. Asked if the President had approved his enterprise, Congressman Dickstein replied: "We are going ahead with the inquiry. You can draw your own conclusions. . . . The revelations will shock the nation, as did those of the Captain Boy-Ed and von Bernstorff episodes in the days...
...Passed (86-to-18) a bill by New York's Dickstein excluding mediocre alien actors under the contract labor clause of the immigration...
...important committee chairmen were: Byrns of Tennessee, Appropriations: Collier of Mississippi, Ways and Means; Pou of North Carolina, Rules; Jones of Texas, Agriculture; Steagall of Alabama, Banking & Currency: Sumners of Texas, Judiciary: Rayburn of Texas, Interstate & Foreign Commerce; Dickstein of New York, Immigration; Linthicum of Maryland, Foreign Affairs; Quin of Mississippi, Military Affairs; Vinson of Georgia, Naval Affairs; Black of New-York, Claims; Mead of New York, Post Offices...
Debaters. Feeling in Congress ran high over the measure. Representative Burton,* of Ohio, was the only Administration spokesman to denounce the Japanese exclusion feature of the bill. Representatives Dickstein, Jacobstein, La Guardia, Sabath and Rosenbloom - whose names are indicative of their disinterestedness - made desperate last-minute efforts to amend the measure to modify the quota basis so as to favor the Italian, Jewish and eastern European stocks. The debate ended with winged words from Representative Tincher of Kansas: "The issue" is fairly well drawn. On the one side- is beer, Bolshevism, unassimiating settlements, and many flags. On the other side...