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...story of The Unvanquished is the story of Washington's growth in clarity and unity during the critical fortnight when his shattered forces ("an alien army in an alien land") retreated across New Jersey. "On the bleak road he now traveled a fortitude was required that could draw no sustenance from the past. . . . All that mattered now was to exist...
Arthur Garfield Hays's first important run-in with the law was almost his last. In 1917, while Hays was busy being a Red Cross collection agent in the West, his partners, who were then lawyers for the New York Evening Mail, submitted a report to the Alien Property Custodian showing an investment of $100,000 in the Mail by one Sielcken, an enemy alien. The Government claimed that the Mail was receiving German gold. Kaufmann and Lindheim were sentenced to a year in jail, and disbarred. Hays, however, came through unscratched...
...This is not the first time certainly that trade unionists and industrialists have found themselves held up for excoriation. No other groups, save only perhaps the alien, have drawn through our history so much bitterness and condemnation. Organized labor striking for higher wages, shorter hours, and union recognition, or seeking privileges new to the custom of the land; organized business, founding banks and railroads and great industries that yielded general plenty and differential disadvantages; these have long constituted time-honored vehicles for hates and antagonisms...
...best honors thesis in English or Modern Literature, was divided between Mrs. Sibyilo O. Crane, Radcliffe '42, of Cambridge, Mass., for her thesis "Heinrich Heine: Critic of Political and Social Ideas in France under the July Monarchy"; and Frederic G. Ranney, Jr. '42, of London, England, for his thesis, "Alien Plain: A Study of Primitive Feeling in Rudyard Kipling's Verse...
Free again in the land of the free was veteran operatic Basso Ezio Pinza after two and a half months on Ellis Island as a potentially dangerous enemy alien. Roman-born Pinza was released on parole announced his intention of doing everything he could to help the United Nations win the war, resuming his career...