Word: alienations
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...Alien Property. The property of enemy aliens, seized during the War, still lies in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian. Bills for disposing of it, and for settling the cognate problem-satisfaction of claims of U. S. citizens against Germany-languished amid disputations in committee...
...Passed a bill providing for deportation of alien criminals and aliens becoming public charges. (See IMMIGRATION.) (Bill went to the Senate...
Last week the House of Representatives passed a so-called "deportation bill," an amendment to the immigration act. Among the things the bill would do is to extend from five to seven years the period in which an alien may be deported for becoming a public charge or going insane in the U. S. It also provides for the deportation of any alien convicted of an offense and sentenced to one year or more in prison. Among the minor changes proposed is the abolition of "moral turpitude"-conviction for a felony being substituted-as a reason for refusing admission...
...accompanied him in service in Palestine. Her political opponents declare her ineligible for office through her loss of citizenship on marrying Major Owen. However, this is not true. The Cable Act of 1922 provides that an American woman citizen does not lose her citizenship upon marriage to an alien...
HEAT-Isa Glenn-Knopf ($2.50). This hot jungle of a book contains an innocent West Pointer, a brainy girl from the States and a Dolores whose scented mantilla appears at first to be the real Castilian thing. The scene is perfumed Manila, "charged with alien, bewildering passions" (cf. jacket). The West Pointer is not inflamed by the virtue of his countrywoman's doctrine of drainage and spelling for the natives, but Dolores, an honest-to-goodness Spanish senorita, and in trouble-well, that is different. When the clay feet of Dolores peep from beneath her wicked skirts, the West...