Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inconclusive ruling (TIME, April 24) that past membership in the Communist Party is not a deportable offense, she guessed the U. S. would have to prove: 1) that Australian-born Harry Bridges was a Communist at the time (March 1938) that his deportation warrant was issued; 2) that Alien Bridges advocates overthrow of the U. S. Government by force...
...case of U. S. v. Strecker (TIME, Feb. 20), the Court had to decide whether past membership in the Communist Party of the U. S. constitutes ground for deportation of an unnaturalized alien. The alien in the case is Galician-born Joseph George Strecker, a coal-digger who became a restaurant proprietor in Hot Springs, Ark. and there dallied with Communism to the extent of joining the party, but who paid dues only once. Last week the Court ruled 6-to-2 (Justices McReynolds and Butler dissenting) that past membership in the Communist Party does not of itself justify deportation...
...glad to be rid of Joe Strecker, she was sorely disappointed by the decision's effect on the even more troublesome case of C. I. O.'s Australian-born Harry Bridges. For the Court, in ruling out past membership in subversive organizations as a cause for ejecting aliens, definitely ruled in membership 1) at the time an alien enters the U. S., or 2) at the time deportation proceedings are begun. Thus the decision which was supposed to settle Alien Bridges' status increased the pressure on Secretary Perkins to seize him, convict him of being a Communist...
...Alien Voter...
...persecution of the Jews in several European countries, the need for a haven of refuge is no excuse for them to oust a Moslem population of twice their number. One cannot help but sympathize with these desert dwellers in their fight against inundation by a flood of alien settlers, who have a diametrically opposed philosophy of life. Even if no displacement of population is intended, a minority of less than one-third of the inhabitants should not expect to exercise governmental control...