Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resounding "international" in its title. For months there have been some 20,000 Ontario members of unions affiliated with C.I.O. But shrewd "Mitch" Hepburn had apparently done himself no harm by waiting until Sit-Down alarm had boiled across the border to begin his one-man stand against an alien invasion. As a coming man in Canadian politics, pointed to succeed Mackenzie King as Dominion Prime Minister, his rousing blasts at "John L. Lewis and communism" were nicely calculated not only to make a surefire appeal to Canada's patriotic masses, but also to placate conservative voters hitherto repelled...
Back home after two years, Alfred found himself regarded more as an undesirable alien than a returning hero, tried futilely to explain why he was no Communist, but finally kept his mouth shut after a call from an agent of the Department of Justice. His girl had married a wealthy logging operator's son from Seattle, but now she suggested that if he would get a job in Russia she would go with him. Alfred declined. One Russian exile was enough. Meanwhile, even though the bottom had dropped out of his world, where there was any democracy left, there...
...Didn't we learn something then? Are we going to be worked into a similar frenzy?" Congress, however, was not to be denied the fun of counter-baiting the Brown-Shirts. Before the House Rules Commit tee, Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York, who is perennially excited about alien infiltrations, charged that one Fritz Kuhn, onetime Ford Motor Co. chem ist, had organized a subversive army of 200,000 Nazis in the U. S. Discovered by newshawks in a Detroit office plastered with Nazi swastikas, Chemist Kuhn eagerly admitted that his Amerikadeuts-cher Volksbund had 200,000 members...
Thomas discusses the plea of many young teachers today that the typical English course "seeks by its choice of unsexed and devitalized themes, to divert the reader with mere trivialties . . . and situations alien to the vibrant happenings in the daily life of the normal boy or girl or high-school...
...would in some way compensate for my looks, but her efforts only made me keenly conscious of my shortcomings. . . . My father [Elliott Roosevelt, brother of Theodore Roosevelt], charming, good-looking, loved by all who came in contact with him. high or low, had a background and upbringing which were alien to her pattern. He had a physical weakness... Whether it was some-weakness from his early years which the strain of the life he was living [in Texas] accentuated, whether it was the pain he endured, I do not know. . . . He began, however, to drink, and for my mother...