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...Accepted the resignation of Leo T. Crowley as Alien Property Custodian. Now, said the President, Mr. Crowley could devote all his time and his "superior abilities" to managing his other two agencies (FDIC...
Woman of Fire. Early in World War I, Kollontay turned up in Sweden again, was promptly deported as an undesirable alien. She sought refuge in the U.S., toured the country lecturing against war. helped Trotsky edit Novy Mir (New World...
Vanishing American. In Albuquerque, Police Chief Pat O'Grady was mortified when a woman whom he held for investi gation as an alien was found to be a Pueblo squaw...
...this instance, they were Nazi; they might have been Allied. In their wake, a gaunt father bore his hurt child. This was a paesano's burden-and Italy's burden. This was a reminder that while courtiers clung to privilege, politicians wrangle'd and alien soldiery racked the land, a nation of 45,000,000 was in transition, stumbling from Fascismo to a less evil destiny, suffering in its hours of expiation...
...revetments to soften beaches for an amphibious invasion. Even when troops arrived, the defenses were still very hard: Jap resistance to the landings was ferocious, the cost in U.S. lives high. The Marshalls, held by the Japs for a quarter of a century, for years jealously guarded from alien visitors, were an unknown quantity. Involved this week was probably the greatest sea and air force the U.S. has yet concentrated on any Pacific objectives...