Word: alienized
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...students in the University, a foreign language club has no significance whatever; either their ignorance or else their experienced in secondary schools leads them to believe that such organizations are merely intended to furnish flaccid bits of information and meaningless amusement to those whose sole interest lies is things alien. In many cases, such suppositions are justified. But within the Cercle Francais of Harvard, conditions are quite different; the Cercle is active--and, what is more, it turns its activity to useful purposes...
...most significant and far reaching issues of the election is the adoption by California by a large majority of the amendment to the alien land-tenure act. The existing law, adopted in 1913, prohibits actual ownership of farm lands to aliens who are ineligible for American citizenship. The amendment, however, takes away from such aliens the privilege of even leasing lands for three years and will place minor land-owning aliens under the guardianship of a public administrator. The movement is based on the apprehension of a menacing increase in Japanese immigration...
...usually backed up by referring to the demands made by the Polish government from time to time for a frontier in the east far beyond the ethnographic boundaries of Poland. It is often said that the Poles are trying to swallow up millions of White Russians, Lithuanians, and other alien elements...
...Corresponding Societies of the hour, with the imperative need of industrial reform staring us in the face, one-half of the American people fear to make even the most conservative of advances. Can we blame the laborers for their disgust? True, all signs of real anarchism must be suppressed, alien proselytes if they are found guilty of conspiracy should be ejected as we would throw a criminal from our house. But let not inordinate reaction block the passageways of progress...
...that there are officials in this country who can tell a harmless radical from a bomb-thrower, who refuse to be swept into panic by the sight of a soap-box or a red banner. It is fortunate, too, that some of our courts have not forgotten that an alien, like anyone else, has his rights before the law--that he is to be judged innocent until he is proved guilty...