Word: alien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, big blossom Harry Micajah Daugherty ("the original Harding man"), onetime (1921-24) Attorney General, and lesser blossom Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, were to go on trial in the Federal Court in Manhattan for conspiracy to defraud the Government of their "unprejudiced services" by accepting a bribe of $391,000 in the American Metal Co. case. The charges which they will have to explain...
...That the Alien Property Custodian (Mr. Miller) seized certain stock of the American Metal Co. during the War as German property, sold...
...Alien Property. The property of enemy aliens, seized during the War, still lies in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian. Bills for disposing of it, and for settling the cognate problem-satisfaction of claims of U. S. citizens against Germany-languished amid disputations in committee...
Last week the House of Representatives passed a so-called "deportation bill," an amendment to the immigration act. Among the things the bill would do is to extend from five to seven years the period in which an alien may be deported for becoming a public charge or going insane in the U. S. It also provides for the deportation of any alien convicted of an offense and sentenced to one year or more in prison. Among the minor changes proposed is the abolition of "moral turpitude"-conviction for a felony being substituted-as a reason for refusing admission...
...accompanied him in service in Palestine. Her political opponents declare her ineligible for office through her loss of citizenship on marrying Major Owen. However, this is not true. The Cable Act of 1922 provides that an American woman citizen does not lose her citizenship upon marriage to an alien...