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211 Meier Salamy Yacoub: File 53257-34, INS.
211 Jewish groups were: “Extracts from Minutes of Second Annual Meeting of National Jewish Immigration Council Held February 18, 1912,” File 53173, INS: NYT, November 14, 1909.
212 Whether Uhl was: Edward Alsworth Ross, The Old World in the New: The Significance of Past and Present Immigration to the American People (New York: Century, 1914), 289–290.
212 Meter was detained: File 53370-699, INS.
212 While HIAS continued: Max J. Kohler, “Immigration and the Jews of America,” AH, January 27, February 3, 1911; NYT, January 19, 1911. For a response to Kohler’s charges, see Memorandum for the Secretary from CommissionerGeneral of Immigration Daniel Keefe, February 16, 1911, File 53173-12, INS.
213 Not all Jewish leaders: Panitz, “In Defense of the Jewish Immigrant, 1891– 1924.”
213 Simon Wolf: NYT, July 18, 1909; Letter from Lipsitch to Kohler, March 7, 1911, Folder 11, Box 11, MK.
213 HIAS President: Letter from Leon Sanders to Max J. Kohler, July 29, 1910, Folder 11, Box 11, MK.
213 Secretary Nagel: Kohler, 198–199. See also, Otto Heller, ed., Charles Nagel: Speeches and Writings, 1900–1928, vol. 1 (New York: Putnam’s, 1931), 151, 157.
214 Jewish groups attempted: AH, January 28, 1910.
214 After that, Williams’s: “Annual Report of the Commissioner General of Immigration,” 1911, 152.
215 In response, members: Letter from Moe Lenkowsky and Anton Kaufman, Chairman and Secretary of the Citizens Committee of Orchard, Rivington and East Houston Streets, to William Howard Taft, April 9, 1912, WW-NYPL; Letter from William Williams to Theodore Roosevelt, January 31, 1912, Series 1, Reel 126, TR; Letter from William Williams to Daniel Keefe, September 13, 1912, Series 6, Number 1579, WHT.
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217 Taft listened to a number: NYT, October 19, 1910; Letter from William Williams to Charles Nagel, October 19, 1910, Folder 64, Box 4, Series I, WW-Yale.
217 But President Taft’s: NYTrib, December 16, 1910; Letters from Charles Nagel to Charles D. Norton, December 10, 13, 1910, WHT; Letter from Charles Nagel to William Howard Taft, January 7, 1911, WHT.
217 These were hard: “Remarks of President Taft to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Foreign Newspapers at the Executive Office, Washington, DC,” January 4, 1911, No. 77, Reel 364, Series 6, WHT; New York Evening Sun, January 4, 1911.
218 “Away with Czarism”: Morgen Journal, April 17, 1911; New York Evening Journal, May 24, 1911; Morgen Journal, June 23, 1911.
219 The Morgen Journal listed: Morgen Journal, April 17, 1911; Szabadsag, October 11, 1910.
219 O. J. Miller: Memorandum from William Williams to Daniel Keefe, October 14, 1910, Folder 63, Box 4, CN; File 53139-7, INS. Nagel sent a detective to investigate Miller and his organization. The investigation discovered that the German Liberal Immigration Bureau was only a paper organization and Miller a reporter for the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung. Nevertheless, Miller’s agitation caught the attention of government officials, congressmen, and German-American organizations.
219 Groups such as: File 53139-7, INS.
219 At first, Williams was: Letter from William Williams to Charles Nagel, April 5, : Letter from William Williams to Charles Nagel, April 5, 7, INS.
220 Nor could Charles: Letter from Charles Nagel to Charles Norton, October 21, 1910, Folder 65, Box 4, WW-Yale.
220 Harper’s Weekly asked: HW, July 7, 1911.
222 It is hard: Broughton Brandenburg, “The Tragedy of the Rejected Immigrant,” Outlook, October 13, 1906; Philip Taylor, The Distant Magnet: European Emigration to the USA (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), 123; “Report of the Dillingham Immigration Commission,” undated, File 1060, Folder 9, IRL; “Annual Report of the Commissioner General of Immigration,” 1907, 83. Harper’s Weekly estimated that some eight thousand potential immigrants were refused passage by steamship companies at Bremen in 1905. HW, April 14, 1906. 222 For some immigrants: Letter from J. M. Jenks to Oscar Straus, March 12, 1907, Box 6,