Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looks as though it were going to cease to exist even there. The borderline exists by virtue of a treaty that is respected by both sides, but when your mines are ruled, your water powers exploited, your timber limits seized upon- all for the benefit of the alien living on the other side; and when, after taking all your natural resources, shipping them to the United States and selling them back to us as manufactured products, the hearts and souls of your children are turned American by the influence of their art, their literature and constant close association...
...Smith then pointed out that, not including the interest on the War debt, the cost of the Veterans' Bureau, the Shipping Board, the Alien Property Custodian, the Government control of railroads and other War-born expenditures, the items of the Federal Government's expense had increased 88% since...
...manifesto, issued by the Professors of the National University of Peking, laid the cause of the anti-alien agitation to the British, whom they charged with wantonly shooting innocent boy and girl students who were parading in protest against the conviction of Chinese strikers in Japanese cotton-factories (TIME, June 15). The British contended that the students and their sympathizers were shot after warning when they attacked the Interrational Police Force at Shanghai. The Peking Foreign Office, while charging all the foreign Powers with responsibility for the shootings which began the trouble, reject the British contention. John A. Brailsford, correspondent...
...Government forbade alien Communists from entering the country to attend, but, like jacks-in-the-box, two foreign Communists suddenly appeared, addressed the conference. They were Dr. Z. Stocker of Berlin, Mile. Marcelle Lebel of France. Long and loud did the Communists guffaw at the impotency of the Capitalistic Government...
...advantage of change of locality in education, never weary of trying to flail inert undergraduates into seeking interesting experiences, and although they are usually unsuccessful, now and then a bold student cuts himself off from the mother-country's apron-strings and risks the perilous journey to alien lands...