Word: alien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Connor, Chicago racketeer, induced chaste Cora Chase to go with him to the Mexican-U.S. line, there to smuggle contraband Chinese into the states. Into the picture another racketeer, "The Colorado Special," thrust himself, looked gaga at Cora, she at him. He joined O'Connor in the alien-running scheme. What he turned out to be after all only faintly interested slim audiences, their tympanic membranes offended by too-frequent gunfire. One James Hagan wrote the play, showed only that he knows crook-talk...
Means was only a witness in the Alien Property scandal. The principals in that were Daugherty, the U. S. Attorney General, and Miller, the Alien Property Custodian. Miller went to Atlantic Penitentiary. Daugherty got off by one juror's vote...
...Passed a bill appropriating $99,152,885 for deficiencies occurring during the present session including $2,353,747 for U. S. Marines in Nicaragua; $50,000,000 to carry out the Alien Property Act; $6,235,000 for purchase of the Cape Cod canal; $5,000,000 for District of Columbia realty; $17,513,500 for Federal buildings throughout the land. The Bill went to the Senate. It brought the public moneys voted this session to a total of 3.3 billions exclusive of 1.38 billions in permanent appropriations. Total appropriations were 4.1 billions last year. Of the half-billion increase...
...administration which had been notable for the Chamber's persistent outspokenness on national legislation. President Pierson declined reelection. To succeed him the Chamber chose William Butterworth of Moline, Ill., president of Deere & Co. (plows). Judge Parker, who expects to be busy this year carrying out the newly-enacted Alien Property bill (War claims), was replaced as board chairman by Joseph Holton Defrees, Chicago lawyer. The four vice presidents are: President Alfred J. Brosseau of Mack Trucks (Manhattan), President Robert R. Ellis of the Hessig-Ellis Drug Co. (Memphis), President Robert Patterson Lamont of American Steel Foundries (Chicago), Vice President...
West Virginia's votes for Goff will be a tribute to a well-disciplined Old Guardsman. They will remove the last trace of the disrepute which Guardsman Goff suffered from his connection with the Alien Property scandals under Attorney General Daugherty. Other reasons for the gesture will be to head off Hooverism in West Virginia and to carry on a State tradition. West Virginia Republicans almost always have a Favorite Son. In 1920 it was Howard Sutherland, the coal man from Elkins who sat in the Senate from 1917 to 1923 and is now U. S. Alien Property Custodian...