Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other members included Thomas Woodnutt Miller, onetime Alien Property Custodian, convicted for fraud in the American Metals case; Col. Thomas B. Felder, deceased; Charles Forbes, convicted of fraud as Director of the Veterans Bureau. Socially its meeting places were a green house on K Street, near the Department of Justice, and a house on H Street, next to the old Shoreham Hotel which backed on the city home of Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post, a big-hearted Harding friend...
...restrictions?no member may be a minor, an alien, a bankrupt, or under sentence for a high crime, but otherwise he need fear no ouster except Death...
Last week these words came from one time Alien Property Custodian Francis Patrick Garvan who mortally fears and hates all things Teuton. Accusing the largest U. S. bank of fraud, he was demanding an inquiry into the flotation last April of $30,000,000 of 5½% convertible debentures of the American I. G. Chemical Corp. by National City Co. Its advertisement of the bonds, he said, intended "to deceive the American public into the belief that the proceeds of these bonds were to be used to foster and finance the development of chemical and allied industries...
Garvan. No holder of American I. G. bonds is Francis Garvan. He first came into prominence when he was made Alien Property Custodian. One of his acts was to confiscate German chemical patents and sell them to the Chemical Foundation (of which he is head) for the fostering of the U. S. chemical industry. In 1919 he was awarded the Priestley medal "for being the greatest lay patron of chemistry." Later, criminal proceedings were started against him for the sale of the German patents, but he was exonerated...
...procedure was not wholly because of its anglophile coloring. The House Plan is admittedly an experimentation, and one which includes a definite intermingling of teachers with pupils. Besides being an anachronism in America, the whole idea of placing such a definite barrier between the tutors and students is distinctly alien to the success of the Plan. The objections to the High Table are just as applicable whether it is English or American. Everyone is well-enough satisfied at the first solution of this relatively unimportant detail. The House Plan means a break with many of Harvard's more important traditions...