Word: deportment
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Interrupting, Minnesota's Senator Ernest Lundeen (see p. 17) declared: "I think the gentleman referred to ... should be deported from the United States." Said peppery old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia: ". . . If there is not a law to deport him, he should be deported anyway...
...House of Representatives passed a bill to deport C. I. 0. west coast Maritime Labor Leader Harry Bridges, often accused of being a Communist, found innocent by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Lamented the New York Herald Tribune: "Democracy is not to be defended by imitating the arbitrary legislative devices of despotism...
...Before the Senate was a drastic, catch-all bill, introduced by Texas' Tom Connally, which would deport aliens for (among other things) writing seditious articles, possessing dangerous weapons, engaging in prostitution...
...Passed and sent to conference a House bill to deport alien spies, saboteurs, drug addicts...