Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are people who declare that "Protestant" and "Catholic" are terms used to distinguish alien faiths, and if they breed at all, their child must be a sterile creature, without pride of parentage or hope of progeny. Yet in New Haven last week met a body of venerable prelates who boldly assert that they are not Protestants, although they refuse to recognize that the Pope is anything more than a pompous sort of Bishop; who quietly deny that they are Roman Catholics, although they use in their worship all the ancient magnificence of phrase, splendors of scarlet and black...
Strictly speaking, the crime alleged in this indictment was a post-War affair but it grew out of War measures. Stock of the American Metals Co., property of the Metallgesellschaft and the Metallbank of Frankfort-am-Main, was seized as alien property by the Government soon after the U. S. entered the War. Some $7,000,000 was derived from the sale of these shares. In 1921, this amount in cash and Liberty bonds was turned over to the Société Suisse pour Valeurs de Meteaux, of Basle...
...Government, and added further that John T. King, former Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, received $50,000 for taking part in the conspiracy; that the late Jesse W. Smith (notorious from the Department of Justice and Veterans' Bureau investigations) received $25,000, and Col. Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, got $391,000 in Liberty bonds, for approving and securing completion of the plot. All these were indicted except John T. King, who it is said is needed as a witness...
...Miller is entirely without foundation. Colonel Miller, however, does not intend to try the case in the newspapers. The charges will be met and answered in open court and the facts will be brought out. The records of the Department of Justice itself show that the action of the Alien Property Custodian, with reference to the return of the property turned over by the American Metals Company, was entirely proper. The Department of Justice itself passed upon the claim and allowed...
...case at issue was a suit brought by the banking firm of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. (of Manhattan) against the Alien Property Custodian and the banking firm of Delbruck, Shickler & Co. (of Berlin). The $148.28 was owing to the Manhattan firm by. the Berlin firm before the War. The Manhattan firm wished to collect the debt at the pre-War rate of exchange and with interest to the sum of $20.40. The Berlin firm agreed that the Manhattan firm was entitled to its claim, but argued that the German Government should pay the claim, since the German bankers were not responsible...