Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years after its founder deserted, the Tennessee Utopia lasted. Then typhoid fever, the rigors of manual labor, and an alien soil thinned the colonists' ranks. Only a handful stayed, and Rugby crumbled away into sleepy decadence while the Tennessee pines sprouted on the cricket field, hid the little church...
Denied a further extension of his four-month alien visitor's permit, rabbity British Earl Bertrand Arthur William Resell, famed libertarian logician, found he must leave the U. S. by year's end. Not anxious for U. S. citizenship, but wishing to qualify for a permanent chair of philosophy at the University of California (where he has been lecturing), Earl Russell will go to Ensenada, Mexico, try to persuade the U. S. consul there to admit him permanently...
...onetime U. S. Communist; and Mrs. Emma Howard, 41, Hot Springs widow; in Hot Springs. Last April Strecker's appeal from a deportation order went to the U. S. Supreme Court, which ruled that past membership in the Communist Party is insufficient grounds on which to deport an alien...
...Ernest Hemingway and William Allan Neilson, president-emeritus of Smith College, were appointed co-chairmen of the sponsoring committee to arrange the conference for Protection of Foreign Born. Keynoted Co-Chairman Neilson: "Noncitizens are being denied jobs and are being threatened with registration. More than 70 so-called anti-alien bills pending in the 76th Congress indicate the manner in which the attacks upon the freedom of the noncitizen can be used...
...Alien Property Custodian after World War I, Francis P. Garvan sold seized German chemical patents to Chemical Foundation, Inc. As president of the Foundation he leased the processes to the industry. Last week the presidency of the foundation, vacant since his death two years ago, was filled again. His successor: 27-year-old lawyer and onetime Yale football manager, Francis P. Garvan...