Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard thing to be ruled by an alien race; and I have been left with the impression that Czechoslovak rule in the Sudeten areas for the last twenty years, although not actually oppressive and certainly not 'terroristic,' has been marked by tactlessness, lack of understanding, petty intolerance and discrimination to the point where the resentment of the German population was inevitably moving to the direction of revolt...
...citizenship papers, twice allowed his application to lapse. For Harry Bridges, this was a serious mistake. By the time he made a third application in 1936-two years after San Francisco's bloody General Strike-Secretary Perkins was besieged with requests to deport Australian Bridges as an undesirable alien. This year the hue has been raised still louder by Congressman Martin Dies's Committee on UnAmerican Activities, whose chairman claims that Bridges is a Communist. Secretary Perkins says she is awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on whether Communism provides ground for deportation.* With impatient Chairman Dies even threatening...
...help of Nick Bogomoletz sprang White Russians from California and over the U. S., who did not like to speculate on his fate if he turned up in Russia in 1938. Radio Commentator Boake Carter was not alone in comparing Alien Bogomoletz favorably with Alien Bridges. By last week, when the record of the Bogomoletz case was forwarded to Madam Secretary Perkins with the recommendation that he be deported to Latvia, it had become almost as famed as the Bridges case. Meantime, Nicholas Bogomoletz and Anna Zaporojschuk, who have a 15-year-old daughter, had finally married...
...code, was reported threatening to resign. Finally, in the evening, at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister issued a communiqué: "The suggestion to the effect that the Czechoslovak Government might consider as an alternative to their present proposals (see p. 18) the secession of a fringe of alien population in their territory in no way represents the views of His Majesty's Government...
...countries, including England and the U. S. To 25 Manchukuoan glad-handers, British and U. S. consular authorities last week had readily granted visas. But neither Britain nor the U. S. would grant the honorable Mr. Amakasu even a transit visa. To Britain a murderer is still an "undesirable alien." to the U. S. a murderer is still guilty of "moral turpitude," to both a murderer is a murderer...