Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crying indictment of justice in America to know that the workingman--and especially the alien workingman--has little chance for his rights in our courts", said John Nicholas Beffel, staff correspondent in Boston for the Federated Press, who in the last year has been spending all his time reporting labor trials and the labor situation for the Federated Press, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON...
...just this perversion of the fundamental and long-tested maxims of human progress with which our Department of Justice is accused. An almost fanatical desire to rid the country of alien "reds" may have led to that misuse of the courts for which it is now blamed. But such practices, if proven to exist, should not be allowed to continue. Faulty administration of the law can never be anything but a stumbling-block to advancement: the attitude of mind which brings it about is unworthy of the twentieth century; above all, the indifference of the public, which allows such...
...students in the University, a foreign language club has no significance whatever; either their ignorance or else their experienced in secondary schools leads them to believe that such organizations are merely intended to furnish flaccid bits of information and meaningless amusement to those whose sole interest lies is things alien. In many cases, such suppositions are justified. But within the Cercle Francais of Harvard, conditions are quite different; the Cercle is active--and, what is more, it turns its activity to useful purposes...
...most significant and far reaching issues of the election is the adoption by California by a large majority of the amendment to the alien land-tenure act. The existing law, adopted in 1913, prohibits actual ownership of farm lands to aliens who are ineligible for American citizenship. The amendment, however, takes away from such aliens the privilege of even leasing lands for three years and will place minor land-owning aliens under the guardianship of a public administrator. The movement is based on the apprehension of a menacing increase in Japanese immigration...
...usually backed up by referring to the demands made by the Polish government from time to time for a frontier in the east far beyond the ethnographic boundaries of Poland. It is often said that the Poles are trying to swallow up millions of White Russians, Lithuanians, and other alien elements...