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DUBOIS, R. and SCHWEPPE E. (eds). Jews in American Life. Thomas Nelson and Sons, N. Y. 1935.

WALD, LILLIAN D. The House on Henry Street. Henry Holt and Co., N. Y. 1915.

=14-15. The Slavs.=—The Slavs—northern and southern—succeed in making abandoned farms productive and work in our mines, steel mills, automobile factories, packing houses, and forests.

ADAMIC, LOUIS. Laughing in the Jungle. Harper and Brothers, N. Y. 1932.

BALCH, EMILY G. Our Slavic Fellow Citizens. Charities Publication Committee, N. Y. 1910.

MILLER, K. D. Peasant Pioneers. Council of Women for Home Missions, N. Y. 1925.

=16. The Orientals.=—Chinese and Japanese bring artistic sensitivity of Far East. Chinese answer call of railroad, ranch, and factory. Japanese reclaim California swamps and develop farms.

HUNTER, ALLAN A. Out of the Far East. Friendship Press, N. Y. 1934.

PALMER, ALBERT W. Orientals in American Life. Friendship Press, N. Y. 1934.

SUGIMOTO, ETSU. A Daughter of the Samurai. Doubleday, Page Co., N. Y. 1927.

=17. The Italians.=—Early explorers and artisans come from Italy, help to build grape and wine industry, work in our marble quarries, raise vegetables, and help to build railroads, bridges, and highways.

D’ANGELO, PASCAL. Sons of Italy. Macmillan Company, N. Y. 1924.

FOERSTER, R. The Italian Immigration of Our Times. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1919.

PANUNZIO, C. The Soul of an Immigrant. Macmillan Company, N. Y. 1921.

SCHIARO, G. E. Italians in America Before the Civil War. Vigo Press, N. Y. 1934.

=18. Near Eastern People.=—Armenians, Greeks, and Syrians bring philosophy, poetry, medical skill, manual skills, and unique artistic sense.

HITTI, P. K. The Syrians in America. Doubleday, Doran, and Co., N. Y. 1924.

MALCOLM, M. VARTAN. The Armenians in America. The Pilgrim Press, Boston, Mass. 1919.

XENIDES, J. P. The Greeks in America. Doubleday, Doran, and Co., N. Y. 1922.

=19. Other Peoples.=—Hungarians, Roumanians, Portuguese, Bulgarians, Lithuanians, Estonians, and Latvians bring ideas, labor, fine traditions, and esthetic values.

DAVIE, MAURICE R. World Immigration. Macmillan Company, N. Y. 1936.

SEITZ, DON CARLOS. Joseph Pulitzer. Simon and Schuster, Inc., N. Y. 1924.

=20. Contributions in Industry.=—Each wave of immigration contributes brain and brawn to American life. Group cooperation makes the United States leader of world industry.

FELDMAN, H. Racial Factors in American Industry. Harper and Brothers, N. Y. 1931.

KEIR, MALCOLM. The Epic of Industry. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. 1926.

PUPIN, MICHAEL. From Immigrant to Inventor. Charles Scribner’s Sons, N. Y. 1931.

=21. Contributions in Science.=—Our country is in the forefront of scientific progress, due to brilliance and inventive genius of individuals of diverse racial and national origins.

BURLINGAME, ROGER. March of the Iron Men, a Social History of Union Through Invention. Charles Scribner’s Sons, N. Y. 1938.

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