Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Police Air Service, a mechanical engineer in Punjab, a law student, editor, lecturer on Xray. He has also been an inmate of Leavenworth Penitentiary. Paroled by Calvin Coolidge after helping to foil a jail break, King of Duty Ghadiali was almost deported as an Oriental alien in 1934, reinstated as a citizen by Franklin Roosevelt within the last year. He is now head of the "Spectro-Chrome Institute" at Malaga, N. J., which claims to cure diseases by colors and light rays, as well as a candidate for Governor. Last week he opened his campaign with a speech...
...however, to let two moon-faced gentlemen climb down a gangplank to a Coast Guard cutter. The cutter snaked up the river to a Fire Department pier. Here the chubby passengers, Cinema Producer Hal Roach and Dictator's Son Vittorio Mussolini, were transferred to an earnest knot of alien squad members, policemen. State Department and Italian Embassy officials, and rushed cross town to the Ritz Tower Hotel, thus avoiding a noisy incident as the Rex warped into its regular pier. A thunderous loud speaker, operated by a microphone hidden in the pier's men's washroom suddenly...
...recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profits. . . . The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against intrusion of alien doctrines of government. . . . Ordinary problems affecting wages, hours and working conditions, in most instances, will quickly respond to negotiation in the council room...
...Totalitarianism is alien to Polish psychology. It will be impossible to introduce this system without provoking civil...
...freedom for creating a sensitive female observer, Laura Riding's Cressida is not jilt but "almost in her time what woman may be in ours.'' This Cressida does not leave her Trojan lover Troilus for a Greek lover, Diomedes; she chooses an unhappy life among the alien Greeks to carry on the vital idea of Troy...