Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins took the stand voluntarily to answer the impeachment charges brought against her by Republican Representative Thomas of New Jersey (TIME, Feb. 6). Failure to deport C. I. O.'s Harry Bridges as an alien Communist was her crime. Dressed in matronly black, with a large white bow across her bosom, Miss Perkins read to the House Judiciary Committee a lawyer-like statement explaining: "I am certainly in favor of the punishment or deportation of any one who engages in [treasonable] conduct. . . . I also wish to emphasize that I am not in accord with...
...Solicitor-General of the U. S., correct in morning coat, wing collar and striped sponge-bag pants, last week appeared before the U. S. Supreme Court to attack a foreign-born lunchroom proprietor of Hot Springs, Ark. in a case fateful for all alien radicals in the U. S. Important also for Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor were the Solicitor-General's arguments, for in attacking Radical Joe Strecker, able Robert Houghwout Jackson was clearing the name of Frances Perkins, against whom rested impeachment charges based on her alleged mollycoddling of an even more famed alien radical...
...citizenship. In Joe's room the detective spied the Communist booklet, pocketed it. Joe's citizenship examinations then turned into an investigation of Joe's politics by agents of the Immigration Bureau. They arrested him under the 1918-20 law which says that any alien advocating forcible overthrow of the U. S. Government, or ganging with folk who so advocate, shall be deported...
...Constitution which assures every citizen freedom of thought and speech," the oath does not appear to deviate too far from the precepts of democracy. But, unfortunately, this law has quite a different de facto meaning when it is enforced in a community where there is strong local feeling against alien social systems like Communism and Socialism. Using the pledge to uphold the Constitution as a convenient excuse, local authorities have time and time again made this law an effective barrier against teaching any theory or fact that might tend to alter the established order. Thus in practice the Teachers' Oath...
Last week C. I. O.'s Pacific Coast leader, Longshoreman Harry Bridges, whom patrioteers have tried to get deported as an alien and a Communist, wired President Roosevelt: "Nazi agents and sympathizers working on planes of the North American Aviation Company ... at Los Angeles, and on planes of the Consolidated Aircraft Company at San Diego, are engaged in wholesale sabotage. . . . Abundant evidence and official records now exist to prove these drastic charges...