My mothers brothers and sisters had migrated to the United States in the 1860s and 1870s and settled in Philadelphia and Terre Haute. and I can remember the holiday when the letters came from my uncles and cousins describing their lot and freedom and their reward for hard work in glowing letters about the United States that they. too. had chosen as their home. I remembered all this quite well. and upon graduation from the university. Frankfurt and Wurzburg. with intense technical as well as economic training. I solicited the help of the cousins for a visa and ticket to the United States. After receipt of my diploma and doctors degree. within 3 days. on August 11. 1924. I sailed on the SS Arabic of the Cunard White Star Line.