Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Howard Sutherland, onetime Senator from West Virginia, distinguished for seven years as absolutely incorruptible in the very tempting job of U. S. Alien Property Custodian, last week resigned his job to accept the presidency of Fidelity Investment Association (a bond-holding trust selling annuity contracts on instalments to small investors) succeeding in that post former Comptroller of the Currency John William Pole...
...example of the working of a judicial system the trial has been a piece of make-believe entirely alien to our common ideas of sifting evidence through the fairness of legal procedure. . . . Taking the whole history of the case and the passion raised on both sides the court seems to have tried according to its lights and has been conciliatory. ... In no case will the Government be justified in employing force in applying an embargo on Russian imports or breaking off diplomatic relations...
...Alien Corn--Belasco, 44th Street W.--The glamorous Katharine Cornell as college music teacher in the allen corn of a small middle-West town. An unusual story superbly acted...
...born Rev. Thomas Frederick Rutledge Beale of St. Paul, Minn, went to court seeking U. S. citizenship. He had refused to promise to bear arms for the U. S.-prime requisite-because he believes that the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact has effectively outlawed war (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week Alien Beale's application was finally refused. He was doubtless aware that in Lima, Ohio last month, Russian-born Professor John Klassen of Bluffton College was granted citizenship upon his promise to serve the U. S. as a noncombatant; that the judge who granted it did so contrary...
...beauty and power of Miss Cornell's art have never been set to better advantage. A cast of able actors performs with rare sympathy parts which are written with uniform deftness and inspiration. Alien Corn has to it the good salt taste of Ibsen. In 1925 Playwright Howard got a Pulitzer Prize for his They Knew What They Wanted. He may well get another...