Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan. Dictator Stalin's most optimistic hope is to complete his Five-Year plan in four years. Henry Ford's managers have an added incentive. In recent months British East Indian rubber interests and Brazilians who feel that the Ford concession should have been give to no alien, have been circulating rumors that the whole Ford rubber plantation was about to be given up (TIME, Dec. 15). Tropical diseases were making too great inroads. Seedlings were not growing. But last month, two years after the contract went into effect, officials of the Companhia Ford Industrial do Brazil could...
This is statement goes on to say that the machine age has crowded into our big cities numbers of people of alien birth lacking educational advantages, who therefore find it impossible to understand the numerous complicated laws which the age makes necessary. In the interests of democracy Legal Aid services have been developed throughout the country, that these people may have the same opportunities for learning their legal rights and obtaining justice as their more wealthy fellow-citizens...
...increasing the House by at least 27 members, so that no State should lose Representatives. Rankin returned to his old criticism of the Constitution which decrees that representation shall be calculated according to the number of "persons" residing in a locality. He cried: "Is it right to give the alien rum runners and racketeers representation in Congress and take it away from Indiana, Tennessee, the Dakotas, Kentucky and Missouri...
Some years ago there was privately printed a little booklet entitled: The Rape of the Bosch Magneto Co. Therein is told how Bosch Magneto Co., New York (in which German Robert Bosch owned ten shares out of 250) was seized May i, 1918 by Assistant Alien Property Custodian Francis Patrick Garvan, sold to the highest bidder. Many have been the criticisms of this Wartime act, and only early this year was germanophobic Mr. Garvan acquitted of charges that he and associates defrauded the U. S. Government of some $5,535,000 in the Bosch deal...
...suggestion is made that some system of alien registration be put in force. Such a policy is to be found among European countries and seems to justify itself...