Word: alienating
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...very short time Harry Bridges was the most hated man in California. Many a shipper thought the millennium and the deportation of Alien Harry Bridges were synonymous. For four years they worked hard to send him away...
Rich and independent, with liberal leanings, Francis Biddle has developed a sudden passion for the letter of the law. Since war's start he has mystified his liberal friends by his hesitant handling of sedition and alien cases-but not those friends who know that to him the word "tolerance" is more than a word...
Singapore gave Malaya meaning; nearly everyone knew that Singapore was a great naval base. Burma had no Singapore. Burma was a strange place, with strange names, where Japanese invaded, British retreated, and young Americans flew gallantly in the alien sky. Last week, as the battle for Burma ran its course, it was still a remote, uncomprehended struggle to most of the world...
...Without waiting for passage of the Bone bill, enabling him to seize foreign patents (TIME, April 27), the President directed Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley to grab all enemy-owned or controlled patents, of which there are more than 25,000. He also announced that this time, under some not-yet-defined powers, they would not be returned to their former owners after...
...alien control of Luscombe Air plane Corp., almost all in the hands of Leopold H. P. Klotz, now of New York City, formerly of Liechtenstein. Luscombe also got a new chairman (Chicago investment banker Matthew J. Hickey) and president (Lee N. Brutus, production man from Waco Aircraft). The seizure was at the express request of the U.S. Navy, for whom tiny Luscombe makes trainers and engines...