Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...move a vote on the Boulder Dam bill. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, co-author of the bill, had sat up all night trying to get a vote. The filibusterers were glad to have other Senators relieve them during the day with debate on Muscle Shoals, alien property and Prohibition bills. At 4:30 p. m., after 28½ hours of talk, they achieved their victory. The Senate had previously agreed to take up other business at that hour. If Senator Johnson could have forced a vote before then, his bill would have probably passed...
Playing their final game of the winter on alien ice, the Freshman skaters will today oppose Yale at New Haven. Led by R. L. Summers and C. R. Lakin, who work together in a fast and accurate attack, the 1930 men should provide the Blue with very stiff opposition...
...York last week began the second conspiracy trial of one-time (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and one-time (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller, who are charged with accepting part of a $441,000 melon as a reward for allowing the transfer of the seized $7,000,000 American Metal Co. stock back to the original German owners. The first trial of these gentlemen miscarried last October when the twelve jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict (TIME...
...condition was pronounced serious. For several years he has suffered from angina pectoris. An hour previous to his collapse in the barber shop, Senators had noted he looked poorly. He had been making a speech on one of the most complicated matters Senators ever gave ear to-the Alien Property Bill...
...Freshman minor sport teams chalked up victories on alien fields last Saturday while a third went down to defeat on its home ground...