Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Bridges, Australian-born leader of the West Coast longshoremen's union, alternately damned as an alien Communist and praised as a dynamic chief of wartime labor, will speak in Emerson D tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Under the auspices of the Liberal Union and the Harvard Teachers Union, the talk will be on "Labor...
Ordered returned by the U.S. to famed World War I Draft Dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, now in the Army pen at Fort Leavenworth: $169,079.71, seized from him in 1921 by the Alien Property Custodian. The money had been held till Bergdoll paid back income taxes of more than...
...content with incessantly trying to bar Communists from the New York ballot or with supporting Martin Dies' infamous "investigation" of "un-American" activities, the Legion has protested a scheduled speech by Harry Bridges in Emerson Hall next Armistice Day. The State Adjutant repeated the familiar phrases, terming Bridges "alien" and his ideas "un-American...
...deny that Bridges is an alien. That is a matter of record. But the Communistic tenor of his ideas still has not been proved. Dean Landis of the Law School said Bridges was not a Communist; Attorney General Biddle said he was and ordered his deportation. Now the issue lies before the courts. Blackstone once expressed the principle that a man is innocent until proved guilty. Perhaps the Legion does not believe in following the English common law. After all, it isn't American...
Harry Bridges, head of the International Longshoreman's Union and leader of the West Coast CIO Union movement, whose deportation as an alien Communist is still pending, will speak to an Armistice Day Audience in Emerson D on "Labor and the War" next Wednesday...