Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year Dean James McCawley Landis of Harvard Law School put alien, unnaturalized C. I. O. Longshoreman Harry Bridges to the legal rack, found that he could not legally be considered a member of the Communist Party. Radical Alien Bridges was therefore not subject to de portation by Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (TIME...
...before A. B. C. is as cruel as that which any previous British Admiral has had to face. All British Admirals have understood the ways of ships, have welcomed conflict with enemy ships. But Sir Andrew is opposed to an alien thing, an unnautical, ugly contraption: the airplane. He himself uses the airplane well, and accomplished his biggest victory, Taranto. with it. But he has not yet fought a decisive fight against it. This is why the long, episodic Battle of the Mediterranean seems more important than all the previous naval battles of history. Sea power itself is challenged...
...other people, to have freedom. . . . India has been ruined economically. . . . Politically, India's status has never been so reduced as under the British regime. . . . Culturally, the system of education has torn us from our moorings. . . . Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly in the presence of an alien army of occupation. . . . We hold it to be a crime against man and God to submit any longer to a rule that has caused this fourfold disaster to our country...
...Joaquin Valley. He used to sit in silence by the hour with his heartbroken little friend, a "poor and burning Arab." When the Arab died Khosrove "stood in the parlor with his hat on his head and said, The Arab is dead. He died an orphan in an alien world, six thousand miles from home. He wanted to go home and die. He wanted to see his sons again. He wanted to talk to them again. He wanted to smell them. He wanted to hear them breathing. He had no money. He used to think about them all the time...
Then, having rescued Miss Wagner from Switzerland, the British arrested her last summer. In her luggage police found photographs of her and Hitler together and that clinched it. She was interned as an enemy alien. To her defense last week went eloquent Beverley Baxter...