Word: alien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impeachment was sought on 14 charges of malfeasance but the move fell through in the House. A Senate committee prying into the "Teapot Dome" oil scandal suspected his involvement; it was unable to prove it. Shortly afterward he resigned under pressure. He was indicted for graft involving the Alien Property Custodian but was not convicted. For the rest of his life he labored to clear his name. He died with his work unfinished. Totally blind in one eye, half-blind in the other, he had been ill for a year before he died...
...Give Japan access to the markets and raw materials that will let her support her people. But free China from all alien domination...
...weeks Special Examiner Charles Brown Sears conducted hearings in San Francisco to determine the status of Australian Harry Bridges. Was he ever a Communist and thus, as an alien-born member of a party urging the overthrow of the Government by force and violence, still liable to deportation? For three and a half months Judge Sears considered the evidence, last week turned in a 185-page report to Attorney General Biddle. Its gist: Bridges was a Communist...
...applied to the immigration authorities for voluntary removal proceedings. These were refused. Instead I was arrested and deportation proceedings were started against me. It goes without saying that I made no secret of my membership in the Communist Party and properly registered that fact as required by the Alien Registration...
...Alien Registration division of the Department of Justice is housed in an abandoned roller-skating rink...