Word: ellises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the law some 347 Italian and German opera singers, businessmen, musicians and plain citizens were snatched off ships and planes arriving last week in New York, and packed off behind the wire fences of Ellis Island. There they were 800 yards from the Statue of Liberty, and a good...
Outcries. Most visitors were admitted after a couple of days for a temporary stay. At week's end, with 131 aliens still in custody, the State Department stemmed the flood by canceling temporarily all U.S. visas all over the world. U.S. consulates were swamped with travelers trying to get...
There were other problems still unsettled. In Congress, Nevada's Senator McCarran who sponsored the new immigration rules was the bright, particular friend of Spain's Franco; but weren't Spanish Falangists excluded by the act's language? Obviously they were, and presumably if any turned...
No doubt the State and Justice Departments are sincere in enforcing a law neither of them likes. The State Department presumably did not want to revoke all outstanding visas to the U.S., as it did last week; nor did it wish to incarcerate over a hundred foreign visitors on Ellis...
The two women planned to live at Radcliffe for a week starting Monday, as part of a study of living conditions among different classes of American girls. Miss Arms explained that it was impossible to tell from the telegram whether the women were being held on Ellis Island, or whether...