Word: alienating
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...when the Judge Advocate General's Department called him. There, as captain, he helped draft the Selective Service and Soldiers' & Sailors' Relief Acts. Promoted to major, he prepared the War Department's legal steps for taking over two striking airplane plants, organized the alien and war prisoner division of the Provost Marshal General's Office. Later, a lieutenant colonel, he prepared Franklin Roosevelt's executive order that last February provided for the establishment of military areas and started the evacuation program...
...blitz. After the lightninglike operations of the week before,* many wondered at the deliberate pace last week. One explanation was that the element of surprise was gone. The First Army was moving perforce from bases set up on an alien shore, lugging equipment to fight an enemy in positions which the Germans had time to prepare...
Harry Bridges, Australian-born leader of the West Coast longshoremen's union, alternately damned as an alien Communist and praised as a dynamic chief of wartime labor, will speak in Emerson D tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Under the auspices of the Liberal Union and the Harvard Teachers Union, the talk will be on "Labor...
Ordered returned by the U.S. to famed World War I Draft Dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, now in the Army pen at Fort Leavenworth: $169,079.71, seized from him in 1921 by the Alien Property Custodian. The money had been held till Bergdoll paid back income taxes of more than...
...deny that Bridges is an alien. That is a matter of record. But the Communistic tenor of his ideas still has not been proved. Dean Landis of the Law School said Bridges was not a Communist; Attorney General Biddle said he was and ordered his deportation. Now the issue lies before the courts. Blackstone once expressed the principle that a man is innocent until proved guilty. Perhaps the Legion does not believe in following the English common law. After all, it isn't American...