Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Karl spoke a little hastily in calling the exiles "new citizens." All of them were born in Russia. By Swedish law five years' residence is necessary before an alien can become naturalized. Last week enthusiastic Swedes appealed to King Gustaf V, hoped that he would intervene specially in their behalf. Meanwhile the Gammal-Svenksby exiles were being temporarily quartered in artillery barracks at JÖnkÖping, focus of the Swedish match industry. Minister of Agriculture Johan Bernhard Johansson was making arrangements to establish small farm holdings for them in provinces where big estates are being split...
Last week, however. Inventor Bosch found himself legally excluded from his U. S. markets. During 1917 hysteria Bosch Magneto Co. of New York was one of the many "enemy owned" companies which were sold at public auction by the U. S. Alien Property Custodian. One Martin Kern purchased it for $4,500,000,* resold it soon after to American Bosch Magneto Corp. which had incorporated for the purpose of buying Kern's Bosch stock. In 1921 Inventor Bosch initiated a new attack on U. S. markets and incorporated the Robert Bosch Magneto Co. to sell German-made Bosch products. Hence...
...name to sell his own products. Should the appeal of the Robert Bosch Magneto Co. fail to reverse Justice Grain's decision. Inventor Bosch will have to market his magnetoes, spark plugs, et al., under a new trade mark. Other purchasers of properties under the Alien Property Act will find in the Bosch precedent a promised security from competition of former German owners...
First up rose Representative Homer Hoch, Kansas Republican, to propose an amendment by which all aliens would be omitted from the population count on which representation is based. Such a counting of voters rather than of heads has long been a favorite project of Drys and the Ku Klux Klan, for it would reduce the representation of large Eastern cities with their many Wet and Liberal aliens. Exclusion of aliens would, for instance, cut six members from New York's representation. A coalition of Southern Democrats and Western Republicans from states adversely affected by reapportionment secured the adoption...
...country, for she had renounced her allegiance to Hungary. New York's Congressman Anthony J. Griffin introduced in the House an amendment to the Naturalization Laws to meet Mme. Schwimmer's case, to prevent "philosophic opinions with respect to the lawfulness of war" from barring an alien from citizenship. Said Mr. Griffin: "I do not see why aliens holding the views of Senator Borah ... on the unlawfulness of war should be debarred from citizenship...