Word: alienating
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...opinion was delivered in the case of Sei Fujii, a sad-faced little Japanese who had bought a piece of Los Angeles real estate, but could not get legal title because of California's Alien Land Act. Under the act-which has been regularly attacked and just as regularly upheld by both state and federal courts for almost 30 years-aliens who are ineligible for citizenship may not own California land. Los Angeles Attorney J. Marion Wright argued that the Alien Land Act conflicted with the Charter of the U.N. The three appeals judges pondered, and decided, in fact...
...Charter (the judges argued), like any other treaty made by the U.S., has become "the supreme law of the land . . . paramount to every law of every state in conflict with it. The Alien Land law must therefore yield to the treaty as the superior authority...
...bill requiring Communist groups to register with the Attorney-General if they are, as the definition states, "controlled by a foreign government." If the definition is legally provable, much of the rest of the bill is unnecessarily, since there are already laws providing for close surveillance of all alien representatives...
Present laws for punishing subversive activities, fraud, and violation of alien registration may or may not be adequate. If they are not, then they can be supplemented by other laws aimed directly at these offenders. But when opinions or group membership become the criteria for suppression, we no longer have a democracy to defend...
Married. Virginia Hill, 33, pretty, hard-boiled mistress of the late Mobster Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel; and her ski instructor, Herman Johann ("Hans") Hauser, 38, Austrian glamour boy who was jailed in 1942 as an enemy alien; she for the fourth time; in Elko...