Word: custodians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excited because the "frustrated freight" first clogged ports and sidings; the State Department and Bureau of Economic Warfare because at least some of the nations were still "friendly" and angry about nondelivery; the Alien Property Custodian because "friendly" consignees had become enemies; Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, etc. because lots of the freight consisted of needed materials...
...work of Mark Twain is America's literary Comstock lode and its foremost assayer is bellicose Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain's America, 1932). As custodian of the Mark Twain Papers, Critic DeVoto has been busy since 1938 panning through an immense, theretofore jealously guarded mound of pay dirt: Mark Twain's letters, notebooks, manuscripts. Much of this haphazard heap is just rubble. But some of it is ore that assays high. And it contains clues galore to the size & shape of Mark Twain's talent, his working methods, the ambiguities of his mind and spirit...
...Garfield Hays's first important run-in with the law was almost his last. In 1917, while Hays was busy being a Red Cross collection agent in the West, his partners, who were then lawyers for the New York Evening Mail, submitted a report to the Alien Property Custodian showing an investment of $100,000 in the Mail by one Sielcken, an enemy alien. The Government claimed that the Mail was receiving German gold. Kaufmann and Lindheim were sentenced to a year in jail, and disbarred. Hays, however, came through unscratched...
...country was cleared of the Nazis it should choose its own constitution. One thing certain is that the people will uphold the principles of democracy." With this addendum, General de Gaulle's statement was a strong bid for the Free French movement to be recognized as the custodian of French democratic ambitions. In France, Pierre Laval had just publicly declared what everyone knew: "I hope for German victory." He did not publicly admit, as he has privately, that it was to save his own oily skin, but piously attributed his hope to fear of "universal Bolshevism." Meanwhile Laval...
...Without waiting for passage of the Bone bill, enabling him to seize foreign patents (TIME, April 27), the President directed Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley to grab all enemy-owned or controlled patents, of which there are more than 25,000. He also announced that this time, under some not-yet-defined powers, they would not be returned to their former owners after...