Word: alien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Herr-Inventor Robert Bosch incorporated Bosch Magneto Co. of New York it was to be a subsidiary of his Robert Bosch Aktiengesellschaft. But in 1917 the U. S. company was seized as alien property, sold, reorganized as American Bosch Magneto Co. In 1921 Herr Bosch again invaded U. S. markets, forming Robert Bosch Magneto Co., Inc., of Long Island City. Quickly American Bosch Co. brought suit, charged they alone had right to the Bosch name, won a verdict that prevented Inventor Bosch from using his name on products marketed...
Coincident with this settlement was a request that the U. S. government discontinue a civil suit brought against onetime Alien Property Custodians Francis P. Garvan and A. Mitchell Palmer, the eleven partners of Hornblower & Weeks, the Chase Securities Co. and others...
...Other companies seized under the Alien Property Act included: Bayer Aspirin, Botany Worsted Mills, Merck & Co., Gera Mills, Pabst Brewing Co., Locomotive Superheater Co., International Textiles...
Politically dry as dry can be is Nebraska where every aid is given to the enforcement of Prohibition. Startling was last week's news that U. S. District Judge Joseph William Woodrough at Omaha had placed a large and. to Nebraska, alien obstacle in the path of U. S. dry agents by his ruling that they cannot legally search a domicile without warrant even though they see, hear and smell material evidence...
...this conference vigorously condemns and resents the insidious inroads of chain banking and urges the people of this State to go back to Wisconsin's time-honored system of independent and self contained banking, fostered for the protection of its own depositors and customers and not the tools of alien and absentee interests...