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"Albert Johnson (March 5, 1869 – January 17, 1957) was an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative from Washington's third congressional district from 1915 to 1933. Biography Born in Springfield, Illinois, Johnson attended the schools at Atchison, Kansas and Hiawatha, Kansas. He worked as a reporter on the St. Joseph (Missouri) Herald and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from 1888 to 1891, as managing editor of the New Haven Register in 1896 and 1897, and as news editor of The Washington Post' in 1898. To edit the Tacoma News he moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1898. He became editor and publisher of Grays Harbor Washingtonian (Hoquiam, Washington) in 1907. Albert Johnson was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1933), but was defeated in a bid for reelection in November 1932. While a Member of Congress, Johnson was commissioned a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service during the First World War, receiving an honorable discharge on November 29, 1918. He served as chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses), where he played an important role in the passage of the anti-immigrant legislation of the 1920s. According to his critics, Johnson was “an outspoken anti-Semite, a Ku Klux Klan favorite, and an ardent opponent of immigration.” At the time of the first mass deportation of foreign-born anarchists and communists in the 20th century, on December 21, 1919, he was the chairman of the Immigration and Naturalization Committee. Johnson was one of the members of Congress who, (along with the 24-year-old J. Edgar Hoover, recently appointed by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer as the head of the Department of Justice’s newly-created Radical Division), accompanied the deportees on the short boat trip across the harbor from Ellis Island to Brooklyn. There they would board an old troopship, The Buford, for their voyage back across the Atlantic to Europe. [from “Obstruction of Injustice,” by Adam Hochschild, “The New Yorker” magazine, November 11, 2019] Johnson appointed one of the leading eugenicists of the era, Harry Laughlin, associated with Planned Parenthood, as the committee's Expert Eugenics Agent. Johnson was the chief author of the Immigration Act of 1924, which in 1927 he justified as a bulwark against "a stream of alien blood, with all its inherited misconceptions respecting the relationships of the governing power to the governed."Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door (NY: Hill and Wang, 2004), p. 55. Johnson has been described as "an unusually energetic and vehement racist and nativist."Dennis Wepman, Immigration: From the Founding of Virginia to the Closing of Ellis Island (New York City, Facts on File, 2002), p. 243 He was the head of 'The Eugenics Research Association', a group associated with Planned Parenthood which opposed interracial marriage and also supported the Planned Parenthood program of forced sterilization of the mentally disabled (though for its own reasons). In support of his 1919 proposal to suspend immigration he included this quote from a State Department official referring to the recent wave of Jewish immigrants as "filthy, un- American, and often dangerous in their habits."Dennis Wepman, Immigration: From the Founding of Virginia to the Closing of Ellis Island (New York City, Facts on File, 2002), p. 242 Johnson retired from the newspaper business in 1934. He died in a veterans hospital at American Lake, Washington, January 17, 1957. He is buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Hoquiam, Washington. References Sources * Daniels, Roger. Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882. Boston & New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. * Goings, Aaron. Johnson, Albert (1869–1957) - HistoryLink.org Essay 8721. * External links Category:1869 births Category:1957 deaths Category:20th-century American politicians Category:American eugenicists Category:American white supremacists Category:Anti-immigration politics in the United States Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Washington (state) Category:Politicians from Springfield, Illinois Category:Politicians from Tacoma, Washington Category:St. Louis Globe-Democrat people Category:United States Army officers Category:Washington (state) Republicans Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives Category:Activists from Washington (state) "
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"The 2015 Games of the Small States of Europe, also known as the XVI Games of the Small States of Europe, were held in Iceland. The slogan was "Natural Power". Icelandic singer Paul Oscar sang during the opening ceremony. Host nation Iceland won the most medals at the Games, which included ten sports. Games Participating teams * (52) * (56) * (host team) (240) * (42) * (136) * (58) * (105) * (42) * (58) Sports ** Trap shooting (1) ** link= Beach volleyball (2) Venues Calendar Medal table Key: References External links *2015 GSSE Official Website Category:Games of the Small States of Europe Games of the Small States of Europe Games of the Small States of Europe Category:International sports competitions hosted by Iceland Category:Multi-sport events in Iceland Games of the Small States of Europe Games of the Small States of Europe Category:2010s in Reykjavík Category:Sports competitions in Reykjavík "