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Lot #    20764
Auction End Date    5/6/2008 12:05:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Memorandum ...in support of H.R. 2328
Author    [Holocaust] Judge Nathan D. Perlman
Publisher    [U.S. Government Printing Office]
Publication Date    1943
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 20 pp. 242:165 mm., light age staining. A good copy not bound.
          
Paragraph 1    A memorandum submitted by Judge Nathan D. Perlman, Vice-President and Chairman of the Commission on Law and Legislation of the American Jewish Congress is support of a bill in the House of Representatives labelled H.R. 2328 to amend Title 18 of the Criminal code...to declare certain papers, pamphlets, books, pictures, and writings non mailable, to provide a penalty for mailing same and for other purposes. This bill would make it illegal to send mailings which contain any defamatory or false statements which tend to expose persons designated, identified or characterized therein by race or religion.
          
Detailed
Description		    Nathan David Perlman, a Representative from New York; born in Poland August 2, 1887; immigrated to the United States in 1891 with his mother, who settled in New York City; attended the public schools and the College of the City of New York; was graduated from New York University Law School in 1907; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in New York City; special deputy attorney general of the State of New York 1912-1914; member of the State assembly 1915-1917; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Fiorello H. LaGuardia; reelected to the Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, and Sixty-ninth Congresses and served from November 2, 1920, to March 3, 1927; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress; resumed the practice of law; delegate to the New York State Convention to repeal prohibition; magistrate of the city of New York May 1, 1935, to September 1, 1936; appointed justice of the court of special sessions of the city of New York November 26, 1936; reappointed July 1, 1945, and served until his death in New York City, June 29, 1952; interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Queens County, N.Y.
          
Reference
Description		    http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000239
        
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Language:    English
  
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