Word: alien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Singapore gave Malaya meaning; nearly everyone knew that Singapore was a great naval base. Burma had no Singapore. Burma was a strange place, with strange names, where Japanese invaded, British retreated, and young Americans flew gallantly in the alien sky. Last week, as the battle for Burma ran its course, it was still a remote, uncomprehended struggle to most of the world...
...Without waiting for passage of the Bone bill, enabling him to seize foreign patents (TIME, April 27), the President directed Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley to grab all enemy-owned or controlled patents, of which there are more than 25,000. He also announced that this time, under some not-yet-defined powers, they would not be returned to their former owners after...
...alien control of Luscombe Air plane Corp., almost all in the hands of Leopold H. P. Klotz, now of New York City, formerly of Liechtenstein. Luscombe also got a new chairman (Chicago investment banker Matthew J. Hickey) and president (Lee N. Brutus, production man from Waco Aircraft). The seizure was at the express request of the U.S. Navy, for whom tiny Luscombe makes trainers and engines...
With Aniline in good hands, Custodian Crowley seized two other alien properties last week, and also appointed a new deputy custodian. The deputy: James Markham, a tall, grey-haired lawyer from Lowell, Mass., who has been a Crowley crony since he went to be Solicitor for Crowley's FDIC in 1933. The seizures...
Francis Biddle. stiffening, lifted up his voice and spoke. The Justice Department, said he, will henceforth "denaturalize" all disloyal alien-born U.S. citizens. Most "denaturalized" citizens will become enemy aliens, can then be interned for the duration...