Word: alien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enactment of the Barnes Bill would danger-signal to nations everywhere that "the American people had begun to succumb to a panic" destructive of "the whole basis for our success in a worldwide competition with an alien and hostile ideology." President Conant testified at the State House yesterday before the joint House-Senate Committee on Education...
Like Alexander Bittelman, the Russian-born Communist intellectual picked up a fortnight ago in Miami, she is an alien. She came to the U.S. from Trinidad in 1924, and the Department of Justice would like to send her back. She spent one night on Ellis Island and then was bailed out for $1,000. Promptly the Communist apparatus of protest (which involves meetings, indignant telegrams, denunciations) meshed into gear...
...Department of Justice lassoed another alien Red last week. This one was Alexander Bittelman, 58, bespectacled and intellectual member of the Communist Party who had gone to Miami for his annual winter vacation...
Waifs from the West. The Soviets admitted them-with some misgivings about Capa (who, in any country, talks and looks like an enemy alien) and his cameras. "The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons," says Steinbeck, "and a man with a camera is suspected and watched." To a polite, but suspicious young man at VOKS, the cultural relations office in Moscow, they tried to explain their mission...
Colonel Robert R. McCormick, of Chicago, hates and mistrusts the U.S. "alien East." Disturbing tales about the Ivy League colleges have lately come to the Colonel's receptive ears. Said his Chicago Tribune last week: "Are these big eastern colleges teaching Americanism or internationalism?" To get the answers, the Tribune dispatched Eugene Griffin, a foreign (Ottawa-based) correspondent...