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Ickes, Harold


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As secretary of the interior under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harold L. Ickes (1874-1952) repeatedly found himself at odds with the president over U.S. policy toward Europe's Jews. A draft of a speech by Ickes condemning the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany was censored by the president...

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Immigration Quotas


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The National Origins Immigration bills of 1921 and 1924 imposed severe limits on immigration to the United States, reversing the nation's tradition of welcoming the downtrodden from around the world. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many Americans came under the sway of anthropologists and eugenicists...

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