Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Als, going through the cars, roused 64-year-old Martin Insull from sleep. Was he a U. S. citizen? No, he was a British citizen who had resided 40 years in the U. S. How long had he been away? Seventeen months. Did he not know that an alien who left the country for more than six months must have a consular visa to return? Messrs. Johnson and Ryan angrily intervened. They protested, they waved their extradition papers, they pointed at President Roosevelt's signature, they refused to let Inspector Als have their prisoner...
...55th birthday Albert Einstein filled out a Federal income tax blank as a nonresident alien, mailed it with his check from Princeton to the Collector of Internal Revenue for the First New Jersey District...
...discussion of U. S. playwrighting begins with Eugene O'Neill. Bunched close together below him are Philip Barry, Maxwell Anderson and Sidney Howard. Like them, Howard does not write a hit at every sitting. Since They Knew What They Wanted, only three (Alien Corn, The Silver Cord, The Late Christopher Bean} of his ten plays have been financially successful. Unlike O'Neill, Anderson or Barry, Playwright Howard is not above working in Hollywood, where he has never written a failure. His adaptation of Bulldog Drummond for Producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1929 made Ronald Colman an important star...
...President Roosevelt sent a message to Congress asking that the principal of Home Owners' Loan Bonds be guaranteed just as Farm Mortgage Bonds were guaranteed two months ago: 2) ordered the Census Bureau to tabulate the citizen and alien population of New York City by blocks as basis for reapportionment for the State Legislature (a blow at Tammany) ; 3)announced that he would favor a law to prevent party officials, government officers and Congressmen from lobbying for government contracts, and also to outlaw professional lobbyists from similar employment...
George Rood loses his wife in childbirth at the time of an explosion caused by the tapping of a gas well almost at his front gate. Embittered by this sad experience and alien to the despoiling methods of the new enterprise, he raises his son as a true child of the soil, mothered only by Mamie, a young servant girl, and Aunt Fanny, a woman already well on in years. "The man and this hebetic image of himself walked the straight ways" refusing to become wealthy by selling the farm as the Karchers had done, in cause of the industrial...