Amendments to the Trading with the Enemy Act: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, First Session, on S. 34 [and Others] Proposing Amendments to the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - Communism - 555 pages
 

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Page 425 - Court of the District of Columbia, or in the district court of the United States for the district in which such claimant resides, or, if a corporation, where it has its principal place of business...
Page 107 - Act, as amended, is amended by striking out the period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a colon and the following : "Provided further, That...
Page 261 - President may prescribe such interest or property shall be held, used, administered, liquidated, sold, or otherwise dealt with in the interest of and for the benefit of the United States...
Page 477 - ... be imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both ; and the officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in such violation or evasion shall be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both...
Page 471 - ... owing or belonging to or held for, by, on account of, or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, an enemy or ally of enemy...
Page 429 - The mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times has introduced into practice, will more or less affect the exercise of this right, but cannot impair the right itself. That remains undiminished, and when the sovereign authority shall choose to bring it into operation, the judicial department must give effect to its will. But until that will shall be expressed, no power of condemnation can exist in the court.
Page 57 - The Congress shall have power ... to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water...
Page 424 - JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court. The question for decision is whether the oft-challenged doctrine of Swift v. Tyson shall now be disapproved. Tompkins, a citizen of Pennsylvania, was injured on a dark night by a passing freight train of the Erie Railroad Company while walking along its right of way at Hughestown in that state. He claimed that the accident occurred through negligence in the operation...
Page 50 - That any person not an enemy or ally of enemy claiming any interest, right, or title in any money or other property which may have been conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid to the Alien Property Custodian or seized by him hereunder and held by him or by the Treasurer of the United States...
Page 12 - FEDERAL HOSPITAL INSURANCE TRUST FUND "SEC. 1817. (a) There is hereby created on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the 'Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund' (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'Trust Fund').

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