Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the War, Mr. Debs was imprisoned for violating the Espionage Act. Later President Harding commuted his sentence, but as a result of his imprisonment he lost his citizenship, which was never restored to him. Although he was born in the U. S., he might be debarred as an alien if he left the country and then tried to return...
...course no official ruling can be made on the case of Mr. Debs until it is submitted to the department, but I doubt very much whether he would be inconvenienced at any port of entry. Debs is not an alien. He has no other home than the United States and never had any. He may not be a citizen, but he certainly is not an alien. There are lots of people in the United States who were born here and are not citizens. Take the Indians for instance...
...this veneration the Churchman, upright and respected Protestant weekly, took another crack last week when it reported the protest of Dean Howard Chandler Robbins of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine against "the tendency [of Anglo-Catholics] to import into America certain English viewpoints and emphases which are alien and exotic...
Another Congressman (Fiorello H. La Guardia, Socialist of Manhattan) wrote a letter to the Secretary of Labor: "My attention has been called to one Count Ludwig Salm Von Hoogstraeten, an alien, who arrived in the United States on or about Dec. 1, 1925. . . . The alien in question apparently has no occupation, and, therefore, the usual inquiry by immigration officials to ascertain whether he had visible means of support should have been made. Inquiry should also have been made to ascertain whether or not this alien's passage was paid for in whole or in part by others...
...DYBBUK - An alien legend of Jewish superstition, magnificently produced at the little Neighborhood Playhouse...