Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign capital into Argentina. There was even talk of seeking a U.S. loan. For Peron, this remedy would have a bitter taste. He has boasted that by the end of his six-year term "not an inch of soil, not a breath of air" in Argentina would be alien-owned. Now foreign capital was to receive "the same treatment and rights enjoyed by Argentine capital...
...Valtin, ex-OGPU agent who told all in his best-selling Out of the Night (1941), was jugged (and then released) as an undesirable alien (1942), served with the armed forces in the Pacific, and finally became a U.S. citizen last January, was still roller-coastering. In New Haven, Conn., the U.S. Attorney went to court to appeal the order giving him citizenship...
...more familiar this listener becomes with Schoenberg's devices, the less is he able to be content with the sheer magnificent discoveries of sounds, and the more is he confirmed in his preconception that a work of art demands by nature a connecting tissue alien to Schoenberg's methods...
...economic cloudburst" he said, would weaken the power of the United States to aid democracies in their fight against "totalitarianism" and leave free nations everywhere "easy targets for external pressures and alien ideologies...
...latest squabble was started by Remington Rand, Inc., reported to be the largest minority stockholder in G.A.F. (the Government owns 97%). Rand, maker of photographic as well as office equipment, seeks control of G.A.F., whose 3,500 patents make it the richest of all plums in Alien Property's hands. Chairman and President James H. Rand, 60, a brisk, bulky individualist who will go the limit to have his own way, loudly charged that the Government's Alien Property Custodian had been entirely wrong in seizing G.A.F. in the first place soon after World War II began...