Word: alien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with reporters the President made it known that he did not favor Federal censorship of motion pictures* but thought that the states should do whatever is necessary of that kind. He indicated that he favors the Mills bill, which would provide returning German property in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian to its owners and paying American claims against Germany out of the proceeds of a U. S. bond issue, which would be retired out of the U. S. receipts under the Dawes Plan from Germany...
Some time ago Representative Ogden L. Mills of New York, suave cosmopolite, one of the ablest financiers in the House, sponsored a bill for returning German property held by the Alien Property Custodian to its owners and compensating American claimants against Germany by a U. S. bond issue to be retired out of German reparations payments (TIME, Dec. 21, CABINET). Last week Representative Garner, the Democratic leader, attacked this bill and Secretary Mellon defended it. The New York Herald Tribune (Republican) promptly attacked the bill, saying that the German property should be sold to pay the American claims...
...President, Alien Property Custodian Howard Sutherland, reported that $578,735,624.75 worth of alien property had been seized by the U.S. during the War, of which all but $274,630,904.38 has been returned. He said that his office charged a fee of 1% of the income for administration...
...incurable vulgarity of H. L. Mencken is mixed with a considerable amount of business acumen. . . . He has made his living for years by smart jibes at the common mind. Nothing is easier to write than this form of humor. He is completely alien to America. . . the penny-dreadful of the intelligentsia. . . a professional smart-Aleck...
...Retroactive? Despatches indicated that the Calles Government has issued regulations covering the enforcement of the anti-alien land laws (TIME, Jan. 25) to Mexican judges, largely nullifying the alleged "retroactive" features of these laws, which have been made the subject of numerous official U. S. protests (TIME, Jan. 25 et seq.) Legal opinion had not crystallized last week as to the actual status of this legislation...