Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparing War with Divorce, Dr. Robbins once more pinked his old adversary. Bishop Manning was a determined advocate of the World War, took part in the stirring "Battle of Karl Muck," which resulted in Conductor Muck of the Boston symphony being interned as a dangerous alien...
Author Raynolds' tale is of two brothers, men of stature and sinew, who roam together through the Western U.S. forests and are devoted to each other. The indeterminate time is laid somewhere in the 19th Century, well before civilization had made romance an undesirable alien. But Author Raynolds, though he is at some pains to set a convincing forest-&-wilderness scene, is not concerned with being historically accurate. The Brothers talk sometimes like minor prophets and sometimes like sophomores; but you don't mind: it is all a kind of legend, with a good enough yarn to carry...
...Ivan Matveef arrived in the U. S. early this year from Russia to buy tool machinery for U. S. S. R. While on temporary credentials he became a vice president of Amtorg Trading Corp., thus violating immigration regulations against an alien transferring his activities while in the country. Secretary of Labor Doak, no friend of Reds, moved swiftly and vigorously to deport him. U. S. firms selling him tool machinery protested loudly to the White House. Last week it developed that President Hoover, anxious to retain Soviet trade, had interceded with an order to Secretary Doak to adopt a more...
...Harold Fowler McCormick, then president, appointed Herbert Morris Johnson as business manager. Yet despite his vigilance there followed such disastrous seasons as that of 1921-22 when, with Mary Garden as general director, the company performed brilliantly but turned in a whopping deficit. Maestro Polacco is an alien. Said Samuel Insull last week: "What I regard as a most important qualification of Mr. Witherspoon is that he is an American and has a fundamental understanding of the desires and hopes of the people of Chicago in regard to opera, and that all his life he has been a good citizen...
...movement, if it really remain Socialism, it cannot be brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic Church, even after it has yielded to truth and justice in the points we have mentioned; the reason being that it conceives human society in a way utterly alien to Christian truth...