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Detective Mary Mae' Foley Way: A trailblazing female cop who hunted Nazis and took on the mob finally gets recognition in Queens | amNewYork

Detective Mary Mae Foley was a pioneering NYPD investigator who fought predatory men, Nazi sympathizers and aided investigations of mobster Lucky Luciano.
fromOpen Culture
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Albert Einstein Gives a Speech Praising Immigrants' Contributions to America (1939)

There have been many times in American history when celebrations of the country's multi-ethnic, ever-changing demography served as powerful counterweights to narrow, exclusionary, nationalisms. In 1855, for example, the publication of Brooklyn native Walt Whitman's offered a "passionate embrace of equality," writes Song of Myself Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, "the soul of democracy."
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