Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Unconventional Eccentric" proved to be one Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich. Under California law, Kidnapper Muhlenbroich faced life imprisonment. G-Men discovered that, like the late, ill-famed Bruno Hauptmann, he was a German alien, resident in the U. S. but five years...
...Marino hadn't quite caught up with current history; it is still at war with Turkey. No one thought about changing that after the last war either, until a Turkish student in 1936 tried to enter San Marino to study agriculture. He was denied admittance as an enemy alien, which was less trouble than straightening out San Marinese-Turkish relations...
...Angeles, Five-&-Ten Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, who, as the wife of a Danish nobleman, renounced her U. S. citizenship, possibly to escape $21,000,000 in inheritance taxes, submitted to registration and fingerprinting as an alien...
...effect this week was the new Alien Registration Law, which requires every alien in the U. S. to register and submit to being fingerprinted. Failure to comply: a fine of $1,000, imprisonment for six months...
...writers of any importance, and many of no importance at all, had been DeVotoized. If Critic DeVoto had been merely an angry man, slashing, jabbing, scolding with picturesque spleen, his enemies would have made short work of him. He was much more. In an atmosphere saturated with alien intellectual influences, he remained steadfastly and intelligently native. While most U. S. writers sighed for Europe, he looked resolutely and fondly homeward. He was a cultural nationalist before his contemporaries had thought up the term. And like most pioneers, he was a little too forthright, a little too blunt, a little funny...