Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles A. Levine, who became the first transatlantic air passenger when he flew to Germany with Clarence Chamberlin in 1927, was convicted in Los Angeles of conspiring to smuggle a German alien into the U.S. from Mexico...
...rushed to Washington to get the release, with recommendations from the War Department made application to the Justice Department (which has an Alien Property division left over from World War I). He waited in vain for results...
...read in the paper that the Treasury would be in charge of alien property, rushed over and filed another application. The Treasury told him also to file with his Federal Reserve Bank, so he went back West and did so. Again he waited in vain...
Fortnight ago he read that the President had appointed Leo Crowley Alien Property Custodian, and filed again...
...still didn't know the half of it: 1) War, 2) Justice, 3) Treasury, 4) the Federal Reserve Bank, 5) the Alien Property Custodian could all have told him that the Patent Office could have granted him the use of the patent at once. All he needed was a little letter from the War Department stating that his project was necessary to the conduct...