Word: alien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his money-Manhattan real estate was good, and at one time he owned more than anyone except John Jacob Astor-but he never raised a rent or put a tenant out for not paying the rent. When the War came, the government took all his property under the Alien Property Custodian's Act. George Ehret got it back again. When Prohibition came he could not quite believe it. That it should happen, such a craziness! . . . He refused to shut up his brewery. He would not let any man leave him until...
...avoid in future some of the cases of individual hardship that have been incurred from time to time under the hard and fast rulings necessary to control the rush of foreigners to this country. One of the most recent instances of the sort was the admission of an alien whose permits were satisfactory while his wife, American born, was detained by officials under a technically. The Stobbs proposal purposes to deal with difficult situations by allowing the secretary of labor to grant at his discretion some of the many unused permits that remain for countries where there is no rush...
...statement just issued, a group of 101 professors of 43 colleges and universities, and one representative of the World Peace Foundation, urged the United States to arbitrate its controversy with Mexico over the Mexican alien land and oil laws. T. N. Carver, C. H. Haring '07, Professor of Latin American History at the University, C. H. Haskins '07 Professor of History and Political Science and F. W. Taussig '70, Professor of Economics, were the petitioners from Harvard University...
...This dispute threatens the friendly relations which should continue to exist between the two neighboring peoples. President Calles has already stated unofficially that Mexico is willing to submit certain aspects of the Mexican-American controversy over the alien land and oil laws to the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague. Such a course would be clearly in accord with the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and of the convention of The Hague. It is compatible with the nature of the difference, since at the root of the difficulty lies a clearly justiciable question--that of the infringement of the property...
Then arguments of the 101 college professors who have signed a statement in favour of immediate arbitration with Mexico on the question of alien land rights are very much to the point. These men feel that immediate action is necessary before the issue "becomes one of national pride and sentiment", and before "feeling may be aroused which will make impossible the judicial settlement now possible." Professorial arguments may not have been of much influence in United States foreign politics, but at least they cannot be regarded as emanating from men who are uninformed...