Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hull House's founder, Jane Addams, in the 19th Century spirit, believed in the social adjustment and education of the alien poor. Miss Carr thought that times had changed, that organization and political pressure were now the best ways for slum dwellers to better their...
...scuttling the French Fleet at Toulon; he did not pretend in this interview that he had ever thought of handing it to the Allies before they entered North Africa. Said he: "After the Armistice the Fleet had orders to scuttle their ships before allowing them to fall into alien hands. So long as I was in command, the order stood and was renewed from time to time. The current Laval government opposed that order. Therefore it was probably the Admiral [Jean de Laborde] commanding the Fleet at Toulon who issued the order to sink the ships." Admiral Darlan agreed with...
Quiet, fast-moving Leo Crowley, U.S. Alien Property Custodian, wrote a letter to his Commander in Chief last week to tell him that by year's end he will have seized over 50,000 patents. That is virtually every U.S. patent held by citizens of enemy and enemy-occupied nations...
...when the Judge Advocate General's Department called him. There, as captain, he helped draft the Selective Service and Soldiers' & Sailors' Relief Acts. Promoted to major, he prepared the War Department's legal steps for taking over two striking airplane plants, organized the alien and war prisoner division of the Provost Marshal General's Office. Later, a lieutenant colonel, he prepared Franklin Roosevelt's executive order that last February provided for the establishment of military areas and started the evacuation program...
...blitz. After the lightninglike operations of the week before,* many wondered at the deliberate pace last week. One explanation was that the element of surprise was gone. The First Army was moving perforce from bases set up on an alien shore, lugging equipment to fight an enemy in positions which the Germans had time to prepare...