Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators Wadsworth and Butler, both of whom come up for reelection this fall in states with a large foreign population, went to the White House and told the President that they would like to pass a law permitting 35,000 wives and minor children of alien-born residents of the U. S. to enter the country regardless of quotas...
...incident cost King his place as National Committeeman. His last appearance in the public eye was when he was indicted three weeks ago with Harry Micajah Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller for conspiracy in securing the payment of $7,000,000 to a Swiss corporation by the Alien Property Custodian - as a reward for which they were supposed to have received $441,000 (TIME, May 17). Dying, the former undertaker's clerk, left besides his family, the history of a unique career, a home in Bridgeport and another on Park Avenue...
Conversely, however, the inertia of a room-mate burdened with work keeps his companion at home. In any event, the mutual urging of men accustomed to one another's opinions never has the devastating effect which an alien offer to go to the movies can produce...
...perfume of scandal and the breath of alleged corruption. Only last week another blossom opened. In Manhattan a grand jury indicted one time Attorney General Harry Daugherty, his good friend, the late Jesse Smith, John T. King, onetime Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, and Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. The charge was that certain stock of the American Metal Co. was seized by the Alien Property Custodian as German property during the War, that the stock was sold for some $7,000,000, and that in 1921 a Swiss corporation, really...
...course the American public is very glad that Commander Byrd is both American and a Nordic. For there is in those facts further proof that in Americanism and Nordicism lie germs of greatness which never take on alien soil. But there is sufficient reason why at this time true pride should be expressed that in an age so mechanical as to be morose, so intricate as to lose its intrigue one human has enough of the joie de vivre to wish to risk...