Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Vetoed a bill (sponsored by Alabama's Starnes) to require deportation of alien spies, saboteurs, drug peddlers and addicts. The President said existing law deals adequately with spying aliens, denounced "the rigor and harshness" of the Starnes proposal for mandatory deportation of alien drug addicts...
...daughter might be going to C. C. N. Y. some day soon. A roly-poly lawyer named Joseph Goldstein sprang to her aid. Under his guidance she filed a taxpayer's suit in New York Supreme Court to oust the Earl, on grounds that he was an alien and an advocate of sexual immorality...
...That the Board had no right to appoint an alien to a city teaching...
...York decision is not relevant to Harvard. The University already has numerous "alien" teachers; its positions are not filled by competitive examinations; and as endowments--not taxes--pay salaries, the question of the morals of an appointee is one for Harvard alone to rule upon...
...City Council increased the clamor, voted 16-to-5 that Earl Russell's appointment should be rescinded. Cried Councilman Charles E. Keegan of The Bronx: "Any Councilman who reads his mail knows that the great majority of the taxpayers of this city do not want this alien coming in here with his moral code and getting paid from the city treasury. We should step in now and destroy the plot which began three years ago, when the Board of Higher Education set its cap for this man of doubtful moral character...