Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best schoolmasterly manner, he advised the newsmen to bone up on the history of the Alien and Sedition laws of the 1790s. They would be surprised, he said, at the parallel. If they would begin reading about the administration of John Adams and go on through Thomas Jefferson's they would find out all about...
...parallel wasn't quite parallel. The restrictive Alien and Sedition acts, sponsored by Alexander Hamilton's Federalists, were passed by the party in power and signed by the President at a time when the U.S. feared a war with France that never happened. The Federalists feared the subversive influence of French revolutionaries, and also wanted to muzzle the Jeffersonian Republican (i.e., Democratic) press...
...academic utopia. On the day that President Conant and General Eisenhower tune in God on their personal or university television seta, I will be mere than happy to sit at their feel and chalk "right" and "wrong" on Right and Wrong respectively. Until then I prefer to direct my alien curiosity and student naivete (not to be confined with "integrity") toward other than exclusive teaching wedded to its own conclusions. Fred L. Glimp...
...road? It would, I think not require six months to destroy the morale of both our teachers and students, and thereby our usefulness to the country. I think one need do no more than state the necessary implications of what you ask to demonstrate that nothing could be more alien to the principle of free expression that Harvard stands...
...nation's corporations: Consolidated Vultee, Montgomery Ward, New York Life Insurance. Louis Johnson himself became a director of Consolidated and the $50,000-a-year president of the General Dyestuff Corp., the sales agency for General Aniline & Film, which had been seized as a Nazi asset by the Alien Property Custodian...