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...subversive propaganda. . . ." Last winter Congressman Dickstein, who chairmans the House Immigration Committee, went through an unofficial dress rehearsal of his anti-Nazi inquiry at which appeared a mysterious "Mr. X'' with armfuls of "evidence" to make scare headlines. Now that he had the formal sanction of the House, Mr. Dickstein proposed to do an even better job of spreading on the record the plight of members of his own race in Germany. Said he last week: "We have dozens of spies coming to America as sailors on German boats. They are trying to spread hate among our people...
...grants the Islands an even more complete independence. The changes in the Bill have been favorably commented upon by the President of the Philippine Senate, Manuel Quezon, and other prominent leaders in that legislature, and it is to be expected that the Bill will be immediately granted the required sanction by the Filipinos...
...last week's annual report, a model of frankness, the new management asked the stockholders at the annual meeting in April to authorize a reduction in par value of the stock so that another write-off of $2,400,000 could be taken. Stockholders were also asked to sanction a new name for their company-Stewart-Warner-Alemite Corp...
This incident brings into bold relief the whole race problem in the country. When representatives of the American people in Congress assembled sanction inequality, it is difficult to condemn the injustice of lynch law and trials similar to that of the Scottsbore boys. If Congress refuses rights to one minority group on account of color, it may refuse rights to other minority groups on account of creed nationality amount of wealth, or any other principle...
...government is asserting its right to decide each of these things, and to decide them without accepting, as the private producer must, the responsibility for its decision. And the right which it asserts is one supported only by a de jure Austinian sovereignty, without a whit of de facto sanction...