Talk:Louis T. McFadden

message: - There is a problem with 2 of my links (currently 22 & 24) they begin 'Template:Http' and don't work.
- the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled is now called the Hospital for Special Surgery but I don't how to make the link work. Lenbrazil (talk) 22:18, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
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message: Why is Mr. McFadden listed as being from Elmira, New York (USA)? He was born in Granville Center, Pennsylvania (USA) and worked for a bank in Pennsylvania before later becaming a senator from Pennsylvania. His only recorded contact with Elmira was that he attended a college there. NPeters22 originally had Mr. McFadden in the People from Pennsylvania category but HOT L Baltimore changed him to the People from New York category on 26 OCT 06. Believing this change to be an oversight, I am reverting the category back. If I am wrong, please explain and un-revert. JimScott 09:09, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: According to http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GZAZ_en___US229&q=ZEITGEIST&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv# he was killed after standing up to big bankers, since he knew the corruption they were doing with taking over the country.--PUNk Limited (talk) 01:41, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
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message: It should be pointed out that most 'all the US "elites" praised Hitler and his policies before the war. Hitler was even made TIME Magazine's "Man of The Year" and put on the front cover in 1933. Among the notables supporting Hitler was Henry Ford and Prescott Bush, President George Herbert Walker Bush's father and George W. Bush's grandfather.
An opposition to jewish or indeed any groups dominance over the economic system in any nation can not logically or intellectually honestly be seen as racist or anti-semitic on its own merit. I don't doubt that McFadden harboured anti-semitic views, but it does not follow automatically from his policies or his opposition to jewish dominance in the banking industry, nor does the article properly document or quote any such proof. I'd like to see such proof reflected in the article itself and not just a references to Hitler.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nunamiut (talk • contribs) 15:03, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: On apparent smear or guilt by association

message: the reference to Michael's A Concise History Of American Antisemitism page 180 is a non-encyclopedic reference for the 'moneychangers' comment notwithstanding the idea that this quote infers that Jesus Christ was anitsemetic, it could also be taken to mean that the moneychangers/bankers are in fact select Jews. Is it both? Is it neither? The Michael books paints Christianity in general as antisemetic and the USA as christian country. The idea is that each and every attempt at Christian celebration is antisemetic because it's founding idea is not Jewish ergo making it antisemetic. At different points the MIchael works refers to gallup polls indicating 2/3 of Americans and 81% of Americans were antisemetic because of their views on Jewish immigration. Michael sees America and christianity as antisemetic in his work. 
The Michael reference to McFadden supporting anti-Jewish policies of Nazi Germany is a non-encyclopedic reference to a reference. The Michael source is a biased source that accuses many prominent Americans and the American public at large of antisemetism. Mrpoisson (talk) 13:40, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a well documented historic fact that zionists ( those who wished for and worked for Palestine to become Jewish property and a Jewish State) during the early 1900's and late 1800's were working actively to get as many Jews as possible to go to the "promised land" instead of the USA. The Zionist's like Theodore Herzl and others had powerful friends, among them powerful politicians and large financial backing as from Rothschild and the Rothschild family throughout the period and even up until today. (Israels Supreme Court building was financed entirely by Rothschild money according to several sources). It would have been in the zionists interest that as many jews as possible were turned away from the doorstep of the United States, and redirected to Palestine. There are even quotes from high ranking zionists that this was even desireable and an end towards they would work actively. This concerted effort is well documented and is abundant with sources from notable historic sources and even several notable jewish historians and sources themselves. Zionists even made deals with Hitler and the Nazi regime, and found anti-semitism in Germany favourable to their cause as it again also made Jews leave for the promised land or the USA only to get turned away and hopefully end up in Palestine. These are not anti-semite claims or my anti semite ideas, they are historic facts and abundantly documented facts at that. Nunamiut (talk) 22:33, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: A Concise History Of American Antisemitism

message: The current entry shows his date of death as Oct. 1, 1936.  Other sources (found via a Google search) have it as Oct. 3, 1936. Is there any source to back up the Oct. 1 date? Ndvanderhoofven (talk) 04:08, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the answer.  The biographical directory of Congress at http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000434 lists his date of death as October 1, 1936.  That seems more reliable than a random internet page. Ndvanderhoofven (talk) 04:16, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of Death

message: In my readings I have found that the only mention of Jews by Louis T. McFadden is in such a manner as to clarify which groups of people are in cahoots (through religion in this case) and which are not. For example on the Congressional Record, June 14, 1934 McFadden begins:
"At that time a man named Jacob Schiff came to this country as the agent of certain foreign money lenders.  His mission was to get control of American railroads.  This man was a Jew.  He was the son of a rabbi.  He was born in one of the Rothschilds's houses in Frankfort, Germany."
Later McFadden states again:
"Sometime before Schiff's arrival there was a firm of Jewish peddlers or merchants in Lafayette, Ind., by the name of Kuhn & Loeb."
It's just an abrasive way to draw attention to the subversive nature of the subject.  Later on McFadden says:
"He appears to have been a man who would stop at nothing to gain his own ends.  I do not blame him for being a Jew.  I blame him for being a trouble maker."
Clearly anyone who thinks these remarks anti-Semitic has neither read nor understood the dangers that lie in wait when the super rich and powerful get together and vie for power.  For example McFadden says (remember this was said before World War 2):
"You have heard, no doubt, of the so-called persecutions of Jews in Germany.  Mr. Speaker, there is no real persecution of Jews in Germany. Hitler and the Warburgs, the Mendelssohns and the Rothschilds, appear to be on the best of terms." Winstalfred Alfronzo (talk) 15:03, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Ultimately, we go with descriptions from reliable sources.  Personally, someone who reads into record anything from The Protocols of Zion, after they were discredited, is at least somewhat deserving of the term. Ravensfire (talk) 16:14, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  How can you derive that L.T. McFadden is anti-Semitic? 

message: The Jews of Capitol Hill: A Compendium of Jewish Congressional Members By Kurt F. Stone p. 137  "McFadden (IS76-1936), an admirer of ihe aniSemilic William Dudley Pelley, actually quoted from the Protocols of the Elders of lion and Henry Ford's International few on the House floor. An uncompromising enemy of what he termed Roosevelt's "Jew-controlled New Deal," McFadden applauded Hitlers "heroic" efforts to eliminate "Jewish domination" in Germany."
A Concise History of American Antisemitism By Robert Michael:
"Representative Louis McFadden, a ten-term Republican from Pennsylva-Pennsylvania inveighed against international Jewish money powers, denounced Jews, and praised the Nazis from the floor of the HousS. In 1933, he warned that America would have to choose between God and the "money changcrs." Con-Convinced that the Jews intended to control the world as well as the United 142	Chapter Five States, he seemed to accept wholeheartedly the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He claimed that Jewish bankers intended "to paralyze industry, to de-destroy patriotism, and, finally, to secure the overthrow of government itself in the United States" McFadden also sympathized with the anti-Jewish policies of the Third Reich.112 Defeated in his bid for reelection in 1934, he ran for the presidency in 1936 on a platform one of whose planks was "Christianity in-instead of Judaism."
The Untold History of the United States By Oliver Stone, Peter J. Kuznick "Hitler, too, had more than his share of U.S. defenders. Among the more notorious was Republican Congressman Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania. He took to the floor of the House in May 1933 to decry the international Jewish conspiracy, reading passages from Vie Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an anti- Semitic screed purporting to prove a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, into the Congressional Record and announcing that the president s abandonment of the gold standard "had given the gold and lawful money of the country to the international money Jews of whom Franklin D. Roosevelt is the familiar." "This country has fallen into the hands of the international money changers," he charged. "Is it not true," McFadden asked, "that in the United States today the Gentiles have the slips of paper while the Jews have the gold and the lawful money? And is not this repudiation bill a bill specifically designed and written by the Jewish international money changcrs in order to perpetuate their power?"
The edit summary that removed it made it clear the editor didn't like using the Jewish Telegraph Agency as a source and wanted balance - not sure what this means - show that he liked kittens? Doug Weller talk 15:47, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protocols, etc. sources 

message: The top paragraph states that the McFadden Act "limited nationally-chartered banks to only open branch banks within the state in which the main branch was situated." This is wrong. Prior to the Act nationally chartered banks weren't allowed to open any branches. so the McFadden Act liberizled branch banking for national banks. 
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/mcfadden_act#footnote2
I will do the editing.
Marc.1337 (talk) 09:17, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  McFadden Act 1927