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Straus, Oscar, 171–73, 174, 181, 183–84, 185, 186–87, 188, 192, 221, 223, 268, 306, 318, 319
Strong, Josiah, 39
Stucklen, Regina, 265
Stump, Herman, 82, 83, 105
Stuyvesant, Peter, 25, 26
Styne, Jule, 381
Sulzer, William, 223
Supreme Court, U.S., 42, 61–62, 147, 359, 364–65, 366, 407, 408, 415 on Ellis Island as distinct from U.S., 203–4
on moral turpitude, 279, 286
Survey, 251–52, 314
Sweberg, Arthur, 362
Swift, Judson, 185, 186
Swinburne Island, 83, 86
Taft, William Howard, 130, 192, 193, 215, 220, 227, 228, 247
Ellis Island visited by, 216–18, 236 immigration as confusing to, 217–18,
236–37
Tammany Hall, 73, 138, 149, 280 Taylor, Horace, 114–15, 122
Tedesco, Anthony, 281, 282, 284–85 Testa, Stefano, 239
Thayer, Thomas, 400
Thornton family, 216–17, 218, 236 Tierney, Mike, 58
Tisza, Stephen, 177
Tompkins, Daniel, 27
Tossen, Arthur, 289
Towery, Matt, 411–12
trachoma, 3, 158, 173, 178, 187, 206 Treasury Department, U.S., 42, 43–44,
49, 50, 53, 58, 78, 82, 89, 105, 113,
114, 117, 119, 122, 132, 133, 135,
139, 143
Truman, Harry S., 357, 358, 359, 361,
362, 366–67
Trump, Donald, 406
Turkey, 71, 75
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 39
Turner, George Kibbe, 280
Turner, John, 147–48, 326
Tyler, John, 34–35
Tynberg, Sig, 274–77
Tyni family, 1–2, 3, 5
typhus, 70–76, 77, 79, 81, 82–83, 85, 91,
101, 198, 395
Uhl, Byron, 193, 209, 212, 234, 268,
271, 272, 308, 316, 321
undesirables, 6–7, 11, 52, 61, 150, 152, 153, 175, 176, 189, 193–94, 209,
210, 215, 218, 258, 331, 333
United Hebrew Charities, 71, 73, 76, 80,
81, 160, 279
United Kingdom, 92, 270, 338–40, 343 United Mine Workers, 166, 169
United States:
expansion of federal government in, 13, 39, 53–54, 61, 87, 102, 121,
122–23, 128, 142, 229, 278, 411 imperialism of, 102
post–World War I recession in, 331 urbanization in, 13, 39–40, 121, 297 World War I entered by, 293, 302 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 414
University Club, 136, 149
U Thant, 24
Vaile, William, 324
“Value Rank of the American People,
The” (Ross), 347
Vandenberg, Arthur, 354
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 36
venereal diseases, 39, 340
Venezuela, 270–73
Versailles, Treaty of, 328
Victor, Orville, 197
Vineland Training School for Feeble
Minded Girls and Boys, 242, 244, 249 von Briesen, Arthur, 158, 159, 228 Von Briesen Commission, 158–61, 228 Voskovec, George, 362–63
Walker, Francis A., 50–51, 52, 77, 96, 97–98, 100, 105, 381, 392, 417 big business criticized by, 102 on birthrates of immigrants, 51, 99
Wallace, Mike, 403–4
Wall Street Journal, 379, 384, 416 Walmsley, Thomas, 22–23
Walter, Francis, 366
Wank, Albert, 116
War Brides Act (1945), 363, 365 Ward, Robert DeC., 98, 102, 104, 164,
185, 191, 247
War Department, U.S., 26–27
Ward’s Island, 24, 35
War of 1812, 28
War Relocation Authority, 352 Warren, Charles, 98, 103–4, 308–9 Washington, Booker T., 385
Washington, George, 31, 128
Watchorn, Robert, 130, 135, 139, 145,
163, 165–67, 169–70, 176–77, 178,
192–93, 206–7, 216, 222, 242, 318 immigration of, 45
lax enforcement policy of, 184–85,
189, 192, 221, 224
money test disavowed by, 196
proselytizing banned by, 186
retirement of, 191–92
Waterston, Sam, 406
Watt, James, 392
Waxman, Nathan, 208
Weber, John B., 49, 58, 60, 62–73, 91,
92, 297
at congressional hearings, 79–81 and Massilia incident, 70–73, 76 quarantine bill derided by, 87
Weisberg, Jacob, 394
Weismann, Henry, 227, 334
Wells, H. G., 165–66
Wells, Richard, 410
Westervelt, Catherine, 26
West India Company, 25
Weyl, Walter, 289
white slavery, 277–85, 301, 310
Wilder, Thornton, 362
Wilhelms, Cornelius, 23
Williams, Jonathan, 27–28
Williams, Roger, 73, 136
Williams, William, 1, 159–60, 161–64,
169, 207–8, 210, 212, 217, 223,
235–36, 247, 269, 270, 272, 297–99,
312, 334, 341, 407, 409, 417
annual reports of, 140, 153, 154, 207,
229
bigger budget desired by, 228–29 corruption of Ellis Island concessions fought by, 141–42
criticism of, 155–56, 161, 213, 218–20,
222, 223–27, 228, 234, 235
Ellis Island notice of, 140–41
immigration societies and, 151,