Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last fortnight with an indignant letter to the newspapers quoting the learned Earl's views on adultery (TIME, March 11). Soon echoes of Bishop Manning's indignation gonged around Manhattan pulpits, and the Hearst press charged that Earl Russell was 1) irreligious, 2) immoral, 3) radical, 4) alien. The Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Catholic Daughters of America, the Lutheran Society, Inc., the Metropolitan Baptist Ministers Conference, all passed hot resolutions. Last week the Roman Catholic Church went on record. Before 6,000 policemen at a Communion breakfast, a speaker cried: "As [policemen] you have learned the full...
...such "agents," 30 were said to have police records, one was a German who had been classed by a British court as a "friendly enemy alien," several were Russians and Poles...
Reunion in New York (produced by The American Viennese Group, Inc.). The Viennese actors of last season's revue, From Vienna, seemed engaging and talented, but too alien for Broadway. The trouble wasn't their accent, which was piquant, but their material, which was ponderous. When they offered a second bill last week, their accents were less piquant but their sketches were more lively. Reunion in New York is more or less Broadway's conception of a Viennese revue. (And, just as likely, Vienna's conception of a Broadway one.) It lacks the pace...
...little emotion it arouses is one of pity for the refugees' plight rather than of indignation for what caused it. This is to write in a minor key, and flub a big theme. For there must always be those who, sick for home, stand in tears amid the alien corn. But only once in a very long while has the home they weep for been turned into a living Hell...
...China's spoils." They thought Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931; whereas Japan merely "established Manchukuo" in defense of her own rights. They certainly failed to realize the real reason for the China Incident which began in 1937: Japan's solicitude for a fellow race being plundered by alien powers. But the worst mistake the U. S. made was to think that by penalizing Japan (by abrogating her trade treaty-TIME, Feb. 5 et seq.) she could change Japan's silky beliefs and stubborn course...