Word: alien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tape of law threatened to thwart the U. S. will to help. By present immigration statutes, no alien Briton, however young or pathetic, can legally enter the U. S. without going through the slow mill of the quota, nor (by British law) take more than ?10 ($36 last week) out of the United Kingdom...
...India, whither she had gone to form "a centre of scientific researches in what is commonly known as education," Signorina Maria Montessori, 69, pioneer woman educator and founder of the famed Montessori (progressive kindergarten) method, was interned as an enemy alien. Mohandas K. Gandhi asked for her release, guaranteed "her good conduct...
along with some 200 other Italian newsmen who worked for alien bureaus. Shortly thereafter, Arnaldo Cortesi left Italy, went to Mexico City for the Times. There, last week, he was once more in hot water, this time of his own heating...
...licensed radio amateurs in the U. S., some 5,000 regularly worked foreign stations. For the most part their conversations with alien hams consisted of trivia about the weather, eclectic gossip of tubes and frequencies. When war came, most amateurs subscribed to a self-imposed neutrality code, foreswore all contacts with hams in Europe. Last week FCC further restricted their activities, forbade them to signal any foreign hams at all. Prohibited also was the use of any portable transmitter capable of sending messages "farther than the line of sight." Violators face immediate loss of license and up to $500 fine...
...will enforce this new regulation through its 27 offices and seven monitor stations throughout the country. With no alien operator among the hams, and 7,500 of them in the Naval Communication Reserve and the Army Amateur Radio System, it is unlikely that FCC suspects any strong fifth-column virus in their ranks. Largely precautionary, FCC's new ruling is designed to make quisling hams stand out boldly if they attempt any aerial shenanigans with Governments abroad...