Word: alienating
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...sinister chord struck in this intensely symphonic book. First of Author West's youthful memories was the assassination of the Empress Elizabeth by the anarchist Luccheni in 1898. "He was an Italian born in Paris of parents forced to emigrate by their poverty and trodden down into an alien criminal class: that is to say, he belonged to an urban population . . . which wandered often workless and always traditionless, without power to control its destiny. It was indeed most appropriate that he should register his discontent by killing Elizabeth, for Vienna is the archetype of the great city which breeds...
...other strongly-supported theory which excused the removal of the Placement Bureau in the eyes of the Administration postulates that Harvard is an educational institution; better, then, to save $18,000 by ridding the budget of the expense of a Bureau alien to Harvard's proper function than to eliminate something intellectual with an equivalent cost...
...impeachment was sought on 14 charges of malfeasance but the move fell through in the House. A Senate committee prying into the "Teapot Dome" oil scandal suspected his involvement; it was unable to prove it. Shortly afterward he resigned under pressure. He was indicted for graft involving the Alien Property Custodian but was not convicted. For the rest of his life he labored to clear his name. He died with his work unfinished. Totally blind in one eye, half-blind in the other, he had been ill for a year before he died...
...Give Japan access to the markets and raw materials that will let her support her people. But free China from all alien domination...
...weeks Special Examiner Charles Brown Sears conducted hearings in San Francisco to determine the status of Australian Harry Bridges. Was he ever a Communist and thus, as an alien-born member of a party urging the overthrow of the Government by force and violence, still liable to deportation? For three and a half months Judge Sears considered the evidence, last week turned in a 185-page report to Attorney General Biddle. Its gist: Bridges was a Communist...