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Another Congressman (Fiorello H. La Guardia, Socialist of Manhattan) wrote a letter to the Secretary of Labor: "My attention has been called to one Count Ludwig Salm Von Hoogstraeten, an alien, who arrived in the United States on or about Dec. 1, 1925. . . . The alien in question apparently has no occupation, and, therefore, the usual inquiry by immigration officials to ascertain whether he had visible means of support should have been made. Inquiry should also have been made to ascertain whether or not this alien's passage was paid for in whole or in part by others...
From Congressman F. H. La Guardia of New York, one time World War aviator, never backward at speech, came vituperation unequivocal and pungent. Congressman La Guardia had watched the tests from the air. Said he: "A waste of the taxpayers' money . . . the cost of the test will equal the cost of three up-to-date planes . . . Anti-aircraft defense from the ground is as inefficient today as it was during the War -. . Put the money into the air service and the people of the Atlantic and Pacific .would sleep in peace regardless of what emergency this country might...
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Gentlemen: I am a subscriber to TIME. In your number of Jan. 26, 1925, on page 11, you say in reference to Congressman La Guardia, "Apres la guerre, he returned to his native Kind, capitalized his record as hero," etc. Irrespective of what he said, does not your statement do him an injustice? The fact is that he stood for and was elected to Congress before the War- in 1916. I happened to be elected to the same, the 65th Congress, from which four members left to enter the Army. The late Gus Gardner of Massachusetts left...
Such a bald attack upon the princely member of a kingly house was quickly answered. Edward S. Rothchild, President of the Chelsea Exchange Bank, Manhattan, said that Congressman La Guardia's letter was "outrageous." Another characterized the reference to overthrowing the U. S. Government as the "bombastic utterances of a political nonentity." Others made haste to state that the Grand Duke was not a pauper: he was coming with 22 trunks; the Duchess was bringing 100 Parisian gowns; (he was bringing his mother-in-law and a secretary; he had two large bank accounts in Manhattan...