Post #291 shows the McCann link to Clay County, Missouri. This is a Mormon link:
Clay County, Missouri
Clay County, Missouri - Wikipedia
Before posting the Fish excerpt, the immigration link is for polygamy. That is why we first posted the opium link for 1905:
We will post the full questionnaires later:
'Personal Data Included on Ship's Manifests
Chart 1. Manifest Form adopted March 3, 1893 Secretary of Treasury. For the Commissioner of Immigration.
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Column 17 Ever in prison of Almshouse, supported by charity, if yes state which.
Column 18Whether a polygamist
Chart 2 Manifest Form adopted March 3 1903 (Immigration Service Form 1500B, Secretary of Treasury
Column 17 Ever in prison or almshouse or institution for care and treatment of the Insane, or supported by charity?
Column 18 Whether a polygamist.'
(Balgamis and Karpat, Turkish Migration to the United States)
'In 1930 Hamilton Fish, the American congressman and chairman of a committee investigating communist activities, had managed to lay hands on 3,000 coded telegrams from the Soviet Trading Corporation "Amtorg" in New York. He handed them over to the U.S. Navy's code and signal section which, after vain efforts to decipher them, reported: "The cipher used by the Amtorg is the most complicated and possesses the greatest secrecy within their [the Navy cryptanalysts] knowledge." Fish then called in the War Department, but eventually he gave up: "Not one expert -- and they had them from six months to a year -- succeeded in decoding a single word of those cablegrams." '
(Hoehne, Codeword: Direktor: The Story of the Red Orchestra)