Word: alienating
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...philatelic President with a volume containing a new issue of Soviet stamps, sent by Commissar Litvinoff. ¶By two strokes of his official pen the President: 1) vetoed a bill which would have guaranteed minimum incomes to substitute mail carriers in the Post Office; 2) abolished the office of Alien Property Custodian established during the War to take over some two billion dollars worth of firms and securities owned by Germans and Austrians, most of which have now either been returned to their owners or dissipated by mismanagement and peculation. ¶ At "street fair" given by the National Women...
...Samuel Insull had been extradited by the Federal Government from Greece, he could have been tried only on the fraudulent bankruptcy charge. Instead he was deported from Turkey as an undesirable alien. As his deportation was stringless, he can be tried on any and all of the indictments. This delights the Government attorneys because they intend to try him first for using the mails to defraud. If he is acquitted on that charge, he will be tried under the bankruptcy law. If that also fails he will be turned over to Illinois to see what that State can do with...
...slapped her hard. "Get yourself up from there, you crazy lunatic. That big fat bum ain't wuth praying for. He done beat me out of my life's savings." When Garvey got out of jail, he was shipped back to his native Jamaica as an undesirable alien. Every time he got himself elected to something in Jamaica, he somehow got himself jailed for something else. Harlem Negroes took his Universal Negro Improvement Association away from him by default and he founded another. When that went bankrupt, he started a third. His Jamaica newspaper, The Blackman...
...moving spirit, is, however, difficult to grasp. The conditions of life have developed in primitive man a set of human reactions and adjustments so alien to our intellectual solutions that we can never completely understand them. His art is also so much the outgrowth of the traditional imaginative system of the group that we find its determining factors far removed from...
...developed that behind the conspiracy was a mixed combination of malcontents. Some of them were men of alien Transylvania which the Treaty of Trianon took from Hungary to add to Rumania. Others were Iron Guardsmen, deputized by their mystical and formidable leader, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Others were plain Lupescu-haters. Still others were merely against Premier Tatarescu. All that united them was hatred for the Sinaia Camarilla, the group of Lupescu's friends who meet with the King at the palace of Sinaia...