THE PRESIDENCY: The Dollar's Week

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¶ A visitor at the President's office was Representative Samuel Dickstein, chairman of the House Immigration Committee who comes from Manhattan's lower East Side and is celebrated for formulating kosher food laws. He had just initiated, at a secret session of his committee, a Congressional investigation of Nazi propaganda in the U. S. Asked if the President had approved his enterprise, Congressman Dickstein replied: "We are going ahead with the inquiry. You can draw your own conclusions. . . . The revelations will shock the nation, as did those of the Captain Boy-Ed and von Bernstorff episodes in the days when Fate was pushing our country to the threshold of World War participation."

While the Federal Government was still looking for Heinz Spanknoebel, accused of operating as an agent of the German Government without notifying the State Department (TIME, Nov. 6, 13), it was announced from Berlin that Col. Edwin Emerson of New York would officially represent the Nazi Party in the U. S., a position which Spanknoebel had pretended to. Col. Emerson, oldtime newspaperman, wrote propaganda from Germany which was distributed to English-speaking troops during the War. Simultaneously another Hitlerite arrived in the U. S. He was Captain Georg Schmitt, who will tour the country consolidating the U. S. members of the Stahlhelm (German veterans organization) into a national society, will explain Naziism to German-American groups. On the side, Captain Schmitt hopes to write a few orders for his father's winery. C. Declaring "we must do our part to keep the Red Cross ready, day or night, for service," President Roosevelt opened the society's annual roll-call. C. To the White House came a jubilant troop of Pennsylvania Democrats to bring the President tidings of last Tuesday's mayoral victories for the party (see p. 16). The President congratulated young William N. McNair on being first Democratic mayor of Pittsburgh since 1905.