Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where it is in accord with popular sentiment, national Prohibition is generally believed to be successful. In other States the system works badly because the people and their officials do not cooperate. ... Is it well that large portions of our people should conceive of the Federal Government as an alien and even a hostile Power? Is it well to have, as a result, a lawless unregulated liquor traffic attended by shocking corruption? It is not fair to assume that all resentment against national Prohibition is due to a desire for unlimited license to be intemperate...
...imagine the welter which would follow if the British surrendered effective control. Groups which out one another's throats in the face of the foreigner would not be likely to agree among themselves when he wan gone If India were a nation there would be no differences such an alien rulers could "capitalize." Chas W. Lightbody...
...Fields guests experiences a return in time to whatever instant of inadequacy, ecstasy, awakening or fear has been controlling a present in which death is the only feasible probability. Influenced by airs less gracious than Prospero's-airs which Stephen Field describes, in loose poetry, as blowing from alien estates in time across those in which men live-each character imagines the eccentric scientist as a salient figure from the past. To Pat Farley he is the father of a girl he has loved in England. As a fur merchant he listens to Norman Rose defining a Jewish...
...time he escaped before he reached his place of exile, got to the railroad by reindeer sleigh. He rejoined his wife, went into exile again in Europe. In Vienna he started the Pravda, famed newspaper. But by this time Trotsky was known to most Foreign Offices as an undesirable alien; one after the other the countries of Europe ejected him. Finally he was deported from Spain to the U. S. In January 1917 he landed in Manhattan. When the Russian Revolution broke he had a hard time getting back to Russia, was interned "in a prison camp in Canada...
...without difficulties did the management of the Brady estate by the Brady sons progress. In 1923 the Brady sisters, Mrs Francis Patrick Garvan, wife of onetime Alien Property Custodian Garvan, famed Watchdog of U. S. Chemical industry, Mrs James C. Farrell, and Mrs. Carl Tuck sued the two sons charging mismanagement and converting of funds to their own instead of the estate's use. The suit was finally dismissed...