(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution overwhelmingly voted down the resolutions against the black list of the D. A. R. at yesterday’s session. By a vote of 14 to 2000 the resolution sponsored by Mrs. Helen Tufts Baillie and Mrs. St. Omer Roy. providing for a referendum among local chapters on matters of policy and leaving to the local chapters the choice of speakers was defeated.
It is understood that the black list, which included many Jewish and non-Jewish educators and leaders, also contained the name of Susan Brandeis, daughter of Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
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