Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearing Leon jumped to his feet, blurted that Dies was "not a responsible member of Congress." When Georgia's Edward Eugene Cox described him as "a man operating under the alias Leon Henderson," Leon angrily cited his family tree back to 1800 to prove that he was no alien with an Anglicized name. Winding up like a badly written comic opera, the hearings proved only that politics and economics cannot speak the same language, even in a crisis...
...years ago such ideas were wholly alien to the U.S. Government and most of its people. Now after two years of war, we live, even in our own land, in a changed world...
...migrés-"A large section of the German emigres [have] failed to realize the deep and irrevocable changes that have come over the German people in the course of the last ten years. . . . We have become the 'alien corn...
...suburb last week George Johnson Armstrong died by hanging, the first Briton executed as a traitor in World War II. A 39-year-old ship's engineer, he was charged with offering his services as a spy to the German Consul in Boston. With him were hung three alien spies. Another Briton, a woman, sentenced to hang at the same time, had her sentence commuted to 14 years imprisonment...
...Seized Axis and other alien ships in our harbors...