Session #81 · 1949–51

Speech #810336675

But the Supreme Court of the United States in 1924. with Justice Sutherland writing the opinion. had held that they were neither Caucasian nor negroid. and therefore they could not own any property. Claire Boothe Luce and Mr. CELLER got the bill passed in the House. and in due course of time we passed it in the Senate. and we finally saw to it that those people had a chance to become naturalized. Then what happened? People wonder what creates Communists. Those people wanting to own property had turned their property over to socalled white people. to lawyers and others. but when this law was passed and they could become citizens. those fellows would not turn their property back. They said. "This property is in my name." When some of them wanted to become naturalized they proceeded to charge them all the way from $2.000 to $2.500. Luckily for those people we had a great Attorney General at that time. Thomas C.
Keywords matched
naturalized

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM LANGER
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
ND
Gender
M
Date
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Speech ID
810336675
Paragraph
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