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Shortly afterwards, "the smiling, swarthy, confident little Socialist from New York," Congressman Fiorello H. La Guardia, wrote a letter to U. S. Secretary of Labor Davis. He asserted that "this Grand Duke Boris" was coming to the U. S. He wanted Secretary Davis to make sure that the Grand Duke was not likely to become a public charge. Said he; "I believe the department would be justified in ascertaining whether these repudiated, unemployed and shiftless dukes and archdukes are not coming here with the intention of overthrowing our republican form of government in the hope of establishing a monarchy. According...
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...
After two days of fruitless balloting for a Speaker of the House, the insurgent leaders, Nelson of Wisconsin, Woodruff of Michigan and La Guardia of New York entered conference with majority Floor Leader Longworth...
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