Word: alienating
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...years passed, they noted that a new Indian history was growing under their eyes. The slapdash, casual rule of the old East India Company "nabobs" was being tightened into the more efficient but far more inflexible system of imperial government. India was dividing into two worlds-that of the alien ruler and that of the native ruled; and day by day it grew more difficult for men like Henry to "belong to both...
After a military victory that Hitler demanded but didn't get, Metropolitan Basso Alexander Kipnis and Cousin Leonid, who had bought negatives of the film from the U.S. Alien Property Custodian, made a distribution deal with United Artists. Last week, under the title Kings of the Olympics, Leni's work began its first general U.S. showing. Leni would scarcely recognize her handiwork...
Patents Pending. General Aniline & Film Corp. offered to lease over 3,500 patents for products and processes that it does not want to exploit itself. This brought to over 43,000 the number of patents (ranging from high explosives to foldable spades and hoes) which the U.S. Office of Alien Property, owner of General Aniline, has released to U.S. businessmen...
...viewed as stemming from a shared abhorrence of the idea of one man being in overt authority over an equal"); plumbing ("the symbolic and patriotic value of these adjuncts to sanitary and comfortable living has become so great that Americans in foreign countries tend to esteem these alien societies in direct proportion to the number and availability of these amenities...
...Manhattan, the Justice Department's drive on alien Communists caught up with Russia-born Irving Potash, vice president of the C.I.O.'s International Fur & Leather Workers Union, member of the Communist Party's national committee. He was hustled off to Ellis Island, where he joined four others held as deportable Communists.* He also joined them in what they cried was a hunger strike against their being denied bail. At week's end all were free on bond, pending hearings. None looked the worse for his fast...