Word: alienating
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...material for a serial play Sin Doesn't Pay. Glory Penbrook (Helen MacKeller) is the ex-murderess who commits suicide when the consequences of her grey past, horribly disinterred, menace her daughter's marriage. Even without the punch lines of Louis Weitzenkorn's dialog and its alien back-ground the situation is strong enough to be good entertainment for those who missed the original...
Under existing U. S. immigration laws, an alien artist who claims distinguished merit may obtain a U. S. visa merely by showing a contract for U. S. performances to a U. S. Consul. England is not so liberal toward foreign artists, permits them to enter for professional purposes only when there is proof that the applicant has qualifications which place him beyond competition with native artists. The French ruling is almost as stringent. Germany, Poland, Russia refuse to let alien artists take their earnings from the country. Italy bans all foreign performers save those who establish residences...
...from her British husband in 1919 and returned to the U. S. Having voted, sworn allegiance to the U. S. when he joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Yale, run for the New York State Senate in 1934, Poloist Guest was dismayed when he was declared an immigrant alien last year, advised by the Immigration Bureau to take out naturalization papers...
...Boas sees no harm for the U. S. in assimilating alien populations. He believes it would help make a more homogeneous nation and abate race prejudice if there were more unions between white men and Negro women. He thinks the eugenists might as well call off their dream of breeding toward an ideal man until there is some agreement as to what the ideal is. He reminds eugenists that the exclusion of imbeciles among immigrants to the U. S. has not prevented imbecility from cropping up among their children...
...dozen other simple and ordinary things in which, a few years ago, the Federal Government had no concern whatsoever. . . . Too long have we remained silent while demagogs attack unfairly the integrity of our business institutions. . . . Too long have we introduced carelessly into the stream of our national life alien philosophies of Government control and foreign ideas of repression of the individual that have no place in this land of freedom...