Word: alienating
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...House observers rate him thus: a mediocre legislator, experienced in the mechanics of lawmaking, who has been popped into a position of importance by the accidental meeting of Hard Times and Democratic control of the House: a solid, substantial citizen, loyal to his own rural system of economics and alien to the -Wall Street idea," who has put aside partisanship to cooperate to the limit of his ability with a Republican administration...
...revision of War debts, revision of the Versailles Treaty to remove from Germany the stigma of sole War guilt, entry into the League of Nations, admission of alien pacifists to citizenship...
...famed for slyness and trickery (TIME, Dec 21). Moreover the name of his Seiyukai Party has long been a Japanese byword for corruption. Last week prominent citizens of Tokyo, reluctant to comment on the killing of the Old Fox, spoke instead about Parliamentary Government, called it "alien," speculated upon the possible benefits of a return to Japanese Medievalism?as though that were possible...
...Union, and since when has it been a crime for labor to organize for the protection of its rights? Yet she was jailed on a false charge which was afterwards changed, held without opportunity for ball until she contracted tuberculosis, and now is awaiting possible deporation as an "undesirable alien" to Poland, where there is a strong probability that she will face the dangerous persecution of the unfriendly Fascists. Sooner or later the public must realize this miscarriage of justice and force the authorities to release Edith Berkman! Clarence M. Agress...
...Sergei Eisenstein, famed Russian cinema director, signed a contract with Paramount for $3,000 a week. Last week, from Manhattan, famed Sergei Eisenstein sailed back to Russia. It is customary for alien cinema artisans who have failed in Hollywood to speak bitterly of their sojourn there. Sergei Eisenstein...