Passport to Nowhere Shows Plight of Displaced Persons
A film in the This Is America series portrays 850000 European displaced persons in detention camps through July 8 at the Palace theater. It highlights why many cannot return home and what the United States could do, including the Stratton bill to admit 400000 displaced persons over four years.
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Palace Theater
America
United States
Stratton
Congressional
Sub-Committee On Immigration
CIO
Philip Murray
Jacob S. Potofsky
Amalgamated Clothing
U S Groups Rally Support for Stratton Bill on Displaced Persons
Leaders and many Teaners endorse the Committee on Displaced Persons aims paving the way for the Stratton bill. Murray urges the United States to lead in giving Nazi camp survivors a new life in a free country with speech and worship. The committee with 56 national groups publicizes the legislation and asks citizens to contact Congress and Earl Mitchener, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, in support.
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Committee On Displaced Persons
Murray
United States
Congress
Earl Mitchener
House
Judiciary Committee
Stratton
Labor bill causes uproar over railroad exemption
The Reed Bulwinkle bill to exempt railroads from anti trust laws draws Senate critique as a monopoly threat to small business and farmers. Labor leader Keen Johnson criticizes press focus on strikes while noting many disputes end peacefully. News coverage of behind the scenes drafting implicates Chrysler J I Case and Allis Chalmers lobbyists.
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Charles W. Tobey
R. N.H
Senate
Congress
Sec. of Labor
Johnson
Chicago
Kentucky
Liberal Weekly
Scripps-Howard
Peter Edson
Edson
Theodore R. Iserman
William Ingles
Iserman
Chrysler
Ingles
Washington
J. I. Case
Allis Chalmers
Stand Oil Co of New Jersey Earns $140 Million First Half 1947
Stand Oil Co of New Jersey reported earnings of $140 million for the first half of 1947, up from $88 million in the same period of 1946.
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Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
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