Cuban Refugee Problem: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session

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Page 88 - US Senate, Washington, DC DEAR SENATOR : This is in response to your request for the views of the Department of Justice on S. 1719, to amend the Interstate Commerce Act and the Federal Aviation Act of 1958...
Page 21 - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 63 - ... and Trade Center in Miami : Now, therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, In consonance with the joint resolution, do hereby call upon officials and agencies of the Government to assist and cooperate with the Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center in Miami, Florida, and I invite the participation of all the nations of the Western Hemisphere therein. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed....
Page 62 - The President is authorized and requested, by proclamation or in such other manner as he may deem proper, to invite the several States of the Union and foreign countries to take part in the exposition.
Page 149 - ... or actual invasion or restriction of such rights, or of unfavorable discrimination with respect thereto." For 54 years, it has been one of the fundamental tenets of the American Jewish Committee that the welfare and security of Jews depend upon the preservation of civil rights and liberties for all Americans and upon the development of sound and healthy intergroup relations among the various racial, religious and ethnic groups in our pluralistic society.
Page 100 - They are : Catholic Relief Services of the National Catholic Welfare Conference; Church World Service of the National Council of Churches; United HIAF Service of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and the International Rescue Committee.
Page 59 - redevelopment (1) those areas in which he determines, upon the basis of standards generally comparable with those set forth in paragraphs (A) and (B...
Page 62 - ... with the republics of Latin America ; and Whereas the joint resolution recites that Miami is suitable for the location of such a Center because it is a natural gateway of the United States to Latin America and possesses certain additional advantages ; and Whereas the joint resolution also recites that the State of Florida and the city of Miami will donate lands and money for the construction of this Center ; and Whereas the effective functioning...
Page 63 - Such report shall be submitted, together with any recommendations it may have to the President of the United States, to the President of the Senate, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to other Federal and State agencies named in this Act.
Page 62 - September 27, 1950 (Public Law 853, 81st Congress), the Congress has expressed its endorsement of the establishment of the Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center in Miami Florida, as a permanent, nonprofit, self-sustaining enterprise for the development of improved relations and increased trade with the republics of Latin America ; and Whereas the joint resolution recites that Miami is suitable for the location of such a Center because it is a natural gateway of the...

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