Permitting Admission of 400,000 Displaced Persons Into the United States: Hearings Before Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2910, a Bill to Authorize the United States During an Emergency Period to Undertake Its Fair Share in the Resettlement of Displaced Persons in Germany, Austria, and Italy ... June 4, 6, 13, 20, 25, 27, and July 2, 9, 16, 18, 1947Considers (80) H.R. 3620, (80) H.R. 2910. |
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... York , Pennsylvania , New Jersey , and Massachusetts ; in the Middle West ... cities are swarming with refugees . They are settled in communities of all sizes ... City , the largest single center of refugee settlement . Now , it is also ...
... York , Pennsylvania , New Jersey , and Massachusetts ; in the Middle West ... cities are swarming with refugees . They are settled in communities of all sizes ... City , the largest single center of refugee settlement . Now , it is also ...
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... York City . War refugees are found to be widely distributed . And , unlike earlier immigrants , who came from uneducated classes , they acquired English with facility and generally found employment without being a disturbing competitive ...
... York City . War refugees are found to be widely distributed . And , unlike earlier immigrants , who came from uneducated classes , they acquired English with facility and generally found employment without being a disturbing competitive ...
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... City and State Alaska . Arizona : 1. Nogales ..-- California : 2. San Francisco .... 3. Los Angeles .. 4. Stockton ... York : 38. Catskill 39. New York 40. New York 41. New York 42. New York 43. New York 44. New York . Baltimore Sun. do ...
... City and State Alaska . Arizona : 1. Nogales ..-- California : 2. San Francisco .... 3. Los Angeles .. 4. Stockton ... York : 38. Catskill 39. New York 40. New York 41. New York 42. New York 43. New York 44. New York . Baltimore Sun. do ...
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... City and State New York - Continued Paper Editorial 45. New York 46. New York . 47. New York 48. New York . 49. Nassau County , Long Island . 50. Nassau County , Long Island . 51. New York . 52. New York 53. New York . 54. New York . 55 ...
... City and State New York - Continued Paper Editorial 45. New York 46. New York . 47. New York 48. New York . 49. Nassau County , Long Island . 50. Nassau County , Long Island . 51. New York . 52. New York 53. New York . 54. New York . 55 ...
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... City and State Michigan : 89 90. Detroit . Minnesota : SUPPLEMENTAL LIST OF EDITORIALS - Continued 91. Minneapolis . 92. Minneapolis . 93. St. Paul . 94. Fairmont . Missouri : 95. St. Louis . New Jersey : 96. Bayonne . New York : 97 ...
... City and State Michigan : 89 90. Detroit . Minnesota : SUPPLEMENTAL LIST OF EDITORIALS - Continued 91. Minneapolis . 92. Minneapolis . 93. St. Paul . 94. Fairmont . Missouri : 95. St. Louis . New Jersey : 96. Bayonne . New York : 97 ...
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Page 554 - Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Page 446 - That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources, and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.
Page 459 - ... shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?
Page 139 - No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.
Page 236 - And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 65 - ... the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States...
Page 79 - Activities met, pursuant to call, at 11 : 25 am, in the Caucus Room of the Old House Office Building, Hon.
Page 226 - Upon the cancellation of such proceedings in any case in which such fee has been paid, the Commissioner shall record the alien's admission for permanent residence as of the date of his last entry into the United States...
Page 583 - When this country was new it might have been good p/olicy to admit all. But it is so no longer.
Page 584 - four essential human freedoms" for which America stands. In the years since then, those four freedoms — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear — have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.