Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge appointed Howard Sutherland, onetime (1917-23) Senator from West Virginia, to succeed the late Frederick C. Hicks (TIME, Dec. 28, MILESTONES) as Alien Property Custodian...
Died. Frederick Cocks Hicks, 53, Alien Property Custodian, Eastern Director of the Republican National Committee during the last election, four times Republican Congressman, Quaker, financier; at Washington, of instantaneous collapse while watching the famed magician Howard Thurston perform in a Washington theatre...
...Alien Property. "Negotiations are progressing among the interested parties in relation to the final distribution of the assets in the hands of the alien property custodian. . . . Pending the outcome of these negotiations, I do not recommend any affirmative legislation...
...history of these two factors: Alien Property. The property in the U. S. of individual Germans was seized when the U. S. entered the War and handed over to the Alien Property Custodian. This property or its equivalent (some of it has been sold) now amounts to about $300,000,000 and is in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian. In addition he has about $30,000,000 of the income from this property. When the peace treaty with Germany was made, it was formally agreed that Germany should reimburse her citizens for the seized property, and that...
Return. The story is simple enough. In the late '50's a plain and hearty British sailor returns to England with his wife-the daughter of an African king-and their baby. They establish themselves in a village pub. The sailor tends bar; the alien princess is his cheerful helpmate. The village reaction results in tragedy. The baby is consigned, through friendly sailor hands, to Africa, perhaps to become a prince again-his mother never knows. The new proprietors of the pub permit her to become the drudge-of-all-work in her old home. Just that...