Word: aliens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been sentenced to one year and one day for something he failed to do (TIME, March 24). He did not, as he should have done, in 1917 report to the Alien Property Custodian that his New York Evening Mail was largely owned by the German Government...
...final House debate on the Johnson measure was enlivened by undignified antics. Representative James A. Gallivan, Democrat of Massachusetts, denounced the Ku Klux influence back of the measure. Said he: "You seem to forget that only the other day your ancestors were alien, the sons of England, and France, Ireland and Scotland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and other lands. Wherever the immigrant has gone schools have sprung up, industries have flourished, trade has increased, wealth has multiplied, prosperity has bloomed and patriotism, peace, law, order, intelligence and happiness follow in his footsteps...
...quota based on the 1890 census (the present quotas are 3% on the 1910 census) have aroused many foreign groups and nations to protest. But last week's fight centred principally on the provision for absolute exclusion of all aliens ineligible for citizenship, meaning especially Japanese. Secretary of State Hughes had previously opposed that provision on the ground that it would offend Japan. The total exclusion provision would break the commercial treaty of 1911 which allowed Japan to send immigrants, but was accompanied by a "gentleman's agreement" that the Japanese Government would not issue passports...
SOMEWHERE AT SEA-John Fleming Wihon-Dutton ($2.00). A salty, foam-flecked collection of short stories for those who love the sea-or Joseph Conrad-or both. Stories not alone of wrecks and lighthouses-though those are not absent-but a peculiarly graphic and moving analysis of a psychology alien to the landlubber; evolved, apparently, out of a sailor's long silent hours between wave and sky. The tales are like etchings, drawn with bold strokes, tense and stark, against the somber background of the ocean; they are best read with one's feet on the fender, safely...
...German Government. Rumely declared that the money had been advanced by Herman Sielcken, "coffee king," an American citizen resident in Germany. Dr. Rumely was indicted for perjury in regard to the true ownership of the Mail, for failure to file a report of the German ownership with the Alien Property Custodian, for failure to report to the Alien Property Custodian that he was indebted to the German Government, for obstructing the U. S. Government in obtaining possession of the Mail...