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California. Correspondence regarding helping children to leave Europe : Correspondence 1939.
Jewish Life in America, 1654-1954: Sources from the American Jewish Historical Society, New York Available online
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- Series:
- Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Letter writing.
- Letters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2010.
- Summary:
- California. Correspondence regarding helping children to leave Europe.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:P511/1/1/1.
- [Wagner-Rogers Bill: admit 20,000 German refugee children of all creeds over two years, from Sen. Robert F. Wagner of NY and Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers of MA in the House] Copies of letters about Wagner-Rogers Bill, before Congress in 1939, with comments by William Templeton Johnson Copies of letters written in support of the bill by people whom the NSCGRC contacted Telegrams urging people to exert pressure on their congress people. Correspondence of Kenworthy with the NSCGRC asking for info, declining to help, etc. - MEK went to Washington in April 1939 to attend hearings of subcommittee of Senate and House on Wagner-Rogers Bill - From a letter of Apr. 1939: AFL, CIO, Hoover, Alf Landon, and Eleanor Roosevelt support bill.
- Marion E Kenworthy Papers.
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- Restricted for use by site license.
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