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...Passed, subject to Senate approval, a bill legalizing the immigration of 1) teenage Giovanni (Johnny) Camera and Anthony di Ina, troopship stowaways, 2) 31-year-old Masuyo Sudo Cromely, Japanese wife of a U.S. newsman, 3) 37-year-old Virginia Casardi, U.S.-born spouse of an Italian diplomat. Sent back to the Immigration and Naturalization Committee for further study was a similar "request of asylum" bill for three Russian stowaways, all adults...
...cold winter's dawn this week the grey and battered troopship Argentina hove into New York harbor after a nightmare voyage across the Atlantic. The passengers were 451 British wives of American G.I.s, and their 175 children. Nine days before, they had left Southampton alternately singing There'll Always Be an England and God Bless America...
...being done," he said gently. He assured the wives that they had not been forgotten. Mrs. Louis Sherman, jiggling a baby over her head, broke in to ask why at least a few wives could not be put aboard every troopship...
...seas of the Far East during the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion. He read "Mahan's classic on sea power. During World War I he commanded a troopship carrying U.S. soldiers to France. He also met and gave some occasional friendly counsel to the young Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the years between wars he studied naval ordnance, served as chief of two bureaus (Ordnance and Navigation) and finally, in 1937, by appointment of his old friend Roosevelt, became the Navy's top dog-Chief of Naval Operations. The Chippewa Indians made...
...would say their actions proved the utter uselessness of all the sharp religious controversy I have read about in the last three issues of TIME received here. I would say to Archbishop McNicholas that the actions of Catholic Chaplain John P. Washington, one of the four heroes of that troopship, prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there most definitely is a "common denominator in religion." I would challenge Bishop McConnell and the other signers of the statement made public by The Protestant to say how Chaplain Washington was serving the enemies of democracy. I would ask all Jews...