Word: stratton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What can be said about the refusal of the United States, at a period of peak employment, to open its doors even to the 400,000 carefully screened refugees for whom the Stratton bill would provide, or of our callous refusal to do more for the harried Jews than tell the Arabs and the British that they should immediately make room for them in little Palestine? Who can read the reports of the terms in which organizations like the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars . . . turned thumbs down on the Stratton bill without perceiving that something morally precious...
...addition to hearing the reports from the delegates, the chapter placed itself on record as supporting the bill now in Senate Committee to raise subsistance allowances and gave unanimous consent to a resolution in favor of the Stratton bill which would admit 100,000 displaced persons per year for four years...
Other legislation stalled. The Stratton bill to allow admission to the U.S. of 400,000 displaced persons languished in committee, despite increasing public pressure. In Manhattan, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, reversing an earlier resolution, voted overwhelmingly to support the bill. An RKO-Pathe documentary movie short called "Passport to Nowhere" made a first-run appearance with a plea for U.S. compassion toward European refugees. But immigration sensitive Congressmen preferred to sidestep such a politically explosive issue. The Stratton bill was dying on the vine...
...considered opinion of many another quota-conscious Congressman: "There are too many so-called refugees pouring into this country bringing with them communism, atheism, anarchy and infidelity." But last week a House Judiciary subcommittee gingerly got ready to hold hearings on a bill by Illinois' Congressman William G. Stratton, which would admit 400,000 D.P.s over the next four years, by reopening the books on unfilled wartime quotas...
...Wiese was sure that "women were ready for more significant fiction than Gene Stratton Porter and articles more serious than the featherweight stuff they were getting." He even suggested to the board that McCall's sell Burton's stockpile of popular fiction to their bigger rivals, Ladies Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion. He wanted to start from scratch with new, "realistic" writers. For such heresies he was fired at least six times during the first year (he quit nearly as often), was always rehired after a few days or weeks because, he says, "there...