Word: alien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that which comes to the rescue after the catastrophe, but rather that which through obedience to sound economic laws creates a prosperity among the people that anticipates and prevents the need of charity." (I The President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the wedding of Mary Elizabeth Sutherland, daughter of Alien Property Custodian Howard Sutherland, to Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris, manager of the Washington baseball team...
...Steuer and Colonel William S. Rand, attorneys for Defendants Daugherty and one-time (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller, then began the defense. Throughout the trial defense attorneys have repeatedly urged dismissal of the case on the ground that the line of evidence offered in no way implicated the defendants. Now further defense was offered that since the $7,000,000 transfer-transaction had been consummated by assistants with but slight knowledge on the part of the defendants, therefore Mr. Miller and Mr. Daugherty could not be said to have "conspired" to put these claims through...
...Government traced C00043203, a $10,000 Liberty bond, to the 1922 private brokerage account of onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller. It was further shown that this bond was one of a $441,000 block which Richard Merton, German metals potentate, had said he paid to the late John T. King in 1921 for speeding through his claim to seven million dollars' worth of War-seized stock of the American Metal Co. Through witnesses, bonds, and documents Prosecutor Emory R. Buckner has succeeded in tracing a total of $49,000 to Colonel Miller...
...CRIMSON had some definite plans for assisting in that work, but, more to the point at this time, it was also suggested that efficient organizations of Harvard graduates, endowed with some knowledge of Harvard, in each professional school could do much more for the first year men than such alien organizations, as the Business School Club, on the surface at least, appears to be doing...
True, his analysis is not free from the distortion of international pique, a picturing of alien powers malignantly striving to reduce British prestige. But these spectres which after all are but half fictitious, Dean Inge accepts in a fatalistic spirit, quite contrary to the usual jingoistic anathemas. And thus his description of French hostility and American indifference to the English carries conviction where the poetic bitterness of Kipling...