Word: alien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that. . . . We have spent more than any country in the world on aviation. If we haven't got the best aviation in the world we haven't got the best management." The House Ways and Means Committee assembled, began to hear arguments on tax reduction plans and alien property settlement. Representative John...
Meanwhile, alert lawmakers, who keep little notebooks, began to list the questions which Congress ought to solve within the next year. A peek into such a notebook revealed the following entries: Prohibition enforcement legislation which General Lincoln C. Andrews is demanding, McFadden-Pepper Branch Banking bill, radio regulation bill, alien property settlement, Muscle Shoals leasing or sale, railroad consolidation, government shipping business, national waterways and the Great Lakes dispute (TIME, Nov. 22), action on Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report on the Philippines (see p. 8), Lausanne Treaty, ratification or rejection of the Berenger-Mellon French debt pact, farm...
...refusal of entry to the U. S. to Mme. Alexandra Kollontai, Soviet Russia's Minister to Mexico who intended a tour through this Republic on her way to Mexico City. Secretary Kellogg classified her as "actively associated with the International Communist subversive movement," and hence not a fitting alien to be admitted. Under the present immigration law, he was entirely within his powers. Nevertheless, upon his head were heaped the vituperations of many a liberal, not the least of whom was Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, who is often-somewhat too optimistically-mentioned as a future Secretary...
President Wilson nor onetime (1919-21) Alien Property Custodian Francis Patrick Garvan was actuated by any but patriotic motives in selling German dye patents to the Chemical Foundation. The patents, sold for $271,000, are alleged to have been worth millions, and Mr. Garvan is now president of the Chemical Foundation. But Alexander Mitchell Palmer, previous (1917-1919) Alien Property Custodian had been empowered during his office by the President to make the sale though the transaction was not effected until Mr. Garvan's regime. Suit to recover was brought by President Harding's administration, under agency...
...Hampden revived Kennedy's The Servant In The House. This season he begins with Tom Barry's The Immortal Thief in a continued effort to reconcile once closely related religion and drama. Perhaps it is because Mr. Hampden's particular symbols of religious fervor are alien to modern audiences that his efforts fail to win popularity...