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COl^CURRENT RESOLUTIONS!-JULY 30, 1955

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Res. 243, approved June 14, 1954); and that there be printed three ^^ Stat. 249. hundred and five thousand two hundred and fifty additional copies, of which two hundred and sixty-six thousand one hundred and fifty shall be for the use of the House; thirty thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate; six thousand copies to be made available at the House Document Room; and three thousand copies to be made available at the Senate Document Room; and that there be included thereon the following history of the pledge: The original author of the pledge was Francis Bellamy, who was pi^^^e. * **' ^ ° ^ born at Mount Morris, New York, May 18, 1855, and died August 28, 1931. He was ordained in 1879 at the Baptist Church in Little Falls, New York. The pledge he wrote was first used at the dedication of the World's Fair Grounds in Chicago on October 21, 1892, the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, and has been recited from that day to this, with some changes, by school children throughout our land. Reverend Bellamy's original wording was altered slightly by the First and Second National Flag Conferences in 1923 and 1924 and his work was officially designated as the Pledge of Allegiance to the F l a g by Public Law 287, Seventy-ninth Congress, approved December 28, 1945. On June 14, 1954, Flag Day, President 59 Stat. 668. Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law House Joint Resolution 243, introduced by Representative Louis C. Rabaut of Michigan, which added to the Pledge of Allegiance the compelling and meaningful words "under G o d. The song "Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag", composed by Irving Caesar, A S C A P, at the request of Representative Louis C. Rabaut, was sung for the first time on the floor of the House of Representatives on Flag Day, June 14, 1955, by the official Air Force choral group, the "Singing Sergeants", under the direction of Captain Robert L. Landers, A F R E S, in special Flag Day ceremonies. P a s s e d July 29, 1955. July 30, 1955

GRANTING OF PERMANENT RESIDENCE TO CERTAIN ALIENS [H. Con. Res. 167] Resolved by the House of Representatives {the /Senate concurring), That the Congress approves the granting of the status of permanent residence in the case of each alien hereinafter named, in which case Ihe Attorney General has determined that such alien is qualified under the provisions of section 6 of the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, as.Jj^.^^ ^ ^ ^^^' amended (67 Stat. 403; 68 Stat. 1044): A-7858789, Af onsky, Dimitri Alexandrovich. 0300-301341, Bart, Fannie, or Fejga Slonimtzik also known as Fejga Slonimtzik Bart. A-7228067, Bart, Mordecai, or Mordchay Bart. E-084291, Berkovits, Elias. E-082603, Blady, Ryfka, also known as Ryfka Larish, also known as Ry wka Larisz. E-082606, Blady, Szmerla, also known as Schmerla Blady. A-6668006, Brown, James Crawford Su, also known as James Su Brown, James Watkins Brown, Su Gin Ling. E-094405, Bugaj, Leckadja. A-9645740, Chai, Woo Suit. E-079967, Chan, Get Wing. A-6847712, Chang, Charles Chi. 0300-448176, Chang, Sophia Ho-Ying. 0200-86319, Chang, Reverend James Aloysius. V-606646, Chang, Kuei Lien alias Patricia Chang. A-6851618, Chang, Kuei-Sheng.

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