Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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along with some 200 other Italian newsmen who worked for alien bureaus. Shortly thereafter, Arnaldo Cortesi left Italy, went to Mexico City for the Times. There, last week, he was once more in hot water, this time of his own heating...
...licensed radio amateurs in the U. S., some 5,000 regularly worked foreign stations. For the most part their conversations with alien hams consisted of trivia about the weather, eclectic gossip of tubes and frequencies. When war came, most amateurs subscribed to a self-imposed neutrality code, foreswore all contacts with hams in Europe. Last week FCC further restricted their activities, forbade them to signal any foreign hams at all. Prohibited also was the use of any portable transmitter capable of sending messages "farther than the line of sight." Violators face immediate loss of license and up to $500 fine...
...shall be unlawful for any person engaged in interstate or foreign commerce ... to have in his employ any alien, Communist or member of any Nazi bund organization. ..." Maximum penalty on employers: $10,000 fine; five years' imprisonment...
...President asked Congress to move the Immigration and Naturalization Service from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice as a measure of alien control. Said Attorney General Jackson, as the FBI added 100 agents and public opinion dumped the fifth-column problem in his lap: "Citizens may be helpful to the Government. They may aid by reporting to the FBI acts, threats, or evidences of sabotage, espionage." To a citizenry determined to act if the Government did not, he added, "The greatest help to the Government that citizens can render is to keep cool and not become frightened...
...information except what comes to them from these soldier-journalists, handed out daily at press conferences by the Propaganda Ministry. But so proud, last week, was Adolf Hitler of his Army's swift advance through Flanders to the English Channel, that he issued a "personal invitation" to three alien news men to visit the front...