Alien Property Custodian Act. Hearing ... on H.R. 12651 and H.R. 12884 |
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... passed there can be a limita- tion put on it as to distribution . I simply throw that out as a sug- gestion , that ... passing a private bill . Private bills are hard to pass under the best of con- ditions , and if there were a great ...
... passed there can be a limita- tion put on it as to distribution . I simply throw that out as a sug- gestion , that ... passing a private bill . Private bills are hard to pass under the best of con- ditions , and if there were a great ...
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... passed at all . that an American woman circumstanced such as my to me in such a case there might be a difference . It seems to me that an American woman who falls in love with a man from a foreign country who lives here and who expects ...
... passed at all . that an American woman circumstanced such as my to me in such a case there might be a difference . It seems to me that an American woman who falls in love with a man from a foreign country who lives here and who expects ...
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... passed at the proper time , and why should we hold up a case like this , in view of the uncertainty and the probable delay in the enactment of a general law ? Mr. BARKLEY . Any one man can object to a private bill and it would go off ...
... passed at the proper time , and why should we hold up a case like this , in view of the uncertainty and the probable delay in the enactment of a general law ? Mr. BARKLEY . Any one man can object to a private bill and it would go off ...
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... passed in broad general terms and looking ahead into the future is in accordance with a wise and humane public policy . STATEMENT TO ACCOMPANY MEMORANDUM FILED BY EDWARD A. THURSTON , FALL RIVER , MASS . , IN EE H. R. 12884 , BILL ...
... passed in broad general terms and looking ahead into the future is in accordance with a wise and humane public policy . STATEMENT TO ACCOMPANY MEMORANDUM FILED BY EDWARD A. THURSTON , FALL RIVER , MASS . , IN EE H. R. 12884 , BILL ...
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... passed into a by- word because of their wanton destruction , both of life and property . Attila and his huns set a precedent of savage warfare . Yet the humane tendency reasserted itself anew . In the middle ages a captured enemy was ...
... passed into a by- word because of their wanton destruction , both of life and property . Attila and his huns set a precedent of savage warfare . Yet the humane tendency reasserted itself anew . In the middle ages a captured enemy was ...
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act of October alien enemy alien property act Alien Property Custodian Alsace-Lorraine amendment Ameri American citizens American parents American women American-born anno Domini Attorney Austria-Hungary Austrian BARKLEY BERLIN-HALENSEE Blun BOGGS born Bulgaria BUTLER CHAIRMAN citizen of Germany citizenship claims client committee companies confiscation Congress court Custodian act daughters debts DEWALT enemy act enemy property erty fact friendly funds GARVAN German citizen German Empire German subject Government held Hilprecht husband income insured intermarried with aliens interposing investments JONES KAHN legislation Liberty bonds lived marriage MONTAGUE MORRIS SHEPPARD mother nations neutral neutral countries outbreak Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia County prior private bill private property prop question real estate resided SANDERS of Indiana SARGEANT SCHAFFER section 9 seized seizure sequestered SIMS STATEMENT statute of limitations suggestion Switzerland taken territory THURSTON tion trading-with-the-enemy act trust United VALE Winslow bill woman
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Page 48 - States for the district in which such claimant resides, or, if a corporation, where it has its principal place of business (to which suit the Alien Property Custodian or the treasurer of the United States, as the case may be, shall be made a party defendant), to establish the interest, right, title, or debt so claimed, and if...
Page 35 - After the end of the war any claim of any enemy or of an ally of enemy to any money or other property received and held by the alien property custodian or deposited in the United States Treasury, shall be settled as Congress shall direct...
Page 56 - VI. They may be charged in the second place with payment of the amounts due in respect of claims by the nationals of such Allied or Associated Power with regard to their property, rights and interests in the territory of other enemy Powers, in so far as those claims are otherwise unsatisfied.
Page 33 - It may not be unworthy of remark, that it is very unusual, even in cases of conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated ; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled.
Page 34 - The universal practice of forbearing to seize and confiscate debts and credits, the principle universally received, that the right to them revives on the restoration of peace, would seem to prove that war is not an absolute confiscation of this property, but simply confers the right of confiscation.
Page 56 - ... payment of amounts due in respect of claims by the nationals of that Allied or Associated Power with regard to their property, rights and interests, including companies and associations in which they are interested, in German territory, or debts owing to them by German nationals...
Page 6 - Before me, the subscriber, one of the justices of the peace in and for the said county personally appeared the abovenamed petitioner, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that...
Page 36 - In the first class nre the private investments of individual German subjects, who, attracted by the possibilities in America, invested their funds in a small way in this country in real estate, in mortgages, and in securities, chiefly of industrial and transportation companies. In the second class are the investments which have been made by combined capital in Germany having close affiliations with the great political and financial powers of the Empire, These latter investments sought dominance and...
Page 42 - Neither the debts due from individuals of the one nation to individuals of the other, nor shares, nor monies, which they may have in the public funds, or in the public or private banks, shall ever in any event of war or national differences be sequestered or confiscated...
Page 33 - It appears to the Court, that the power of confiscating enemy property is in the legislature, and that the legislature has not yet declared its will to confiscate property which was within our territory at the declaration of war.