Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reason: Hidalgoans believe that the A. Y. Baker political machine, built up in the past 20 years by control of alien Mexican voters and the alleged assistance of Republican Committeeman Creager, has grafted the county out of millions of dollars...
...only the shipbuilding companies and their activities which have shocked the President, but should extend also to lobbies, carried on by employes of church organizations and of fanatic pacifists' machines which do not make plain the sources of their funds or prove their freedom from relationship with radical alien internationals or with foreign inspired propaganda intended to keep the U. S. in various states of coma in its various relations and defenses...
Garvan's Random Thoughts. Francis Patrick Garvan, lawyer, onetime (1919) Alien Property Custodian, brother-in-law of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper), received in absentia the society's Priestley Medal, its highest award, for "distinguished service to chemistry," for being "the greatest lay patron of chemistry in this country." He organized and is president of Chemical Foundation, Inc., to which he sold the War-expropriated German chemical patents. Stockholders of the foundation are U. S. chemical concerns which pay it royalties on its patents and which later get back the greater portion of their payments as dividends...
...much attention to the incident or explored its sociological implications. But Bernarr Macfadden's horror-loving New York Evening Graphic sent a man out to pose and photograph the Widow Kolesar lamenting in a cornfield. The photograph was published under the caption: She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
Again, Tycoon Sirs: Had hoped you would tire of it-but no. I'll forgive you anything you have done-or anything you may do, if you'll abandon that alien "tycoon" thing. Even TIME cannot pluck it from its comic opera setting in the mind of the English speaking world, and give it adequacy or dignity, by all too frequent use. Is good old United States so poverty stricken that you must lug this in? It grates-ugh! H. VAN ANTWERP Farmers...