Crime to Promote Overthrow of Government: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on H.R.5138, an Act to Make Unlawful Attempts to Interfere with the Discipline of the Army, the Navy, and the Coast Guard; to Require the Deportation of Certain Classes of Aliens; to Require the Finger-printing of Aliens Seeking to Enter the United States; and for Other Purposes. May 17, 1940 ...

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Page 4 - ... the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the government of the United States...
Page 2 - ... anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States, or of all government, or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public officials...
Page 2 - That at any time within five years after entry, any alien who at the time of entry was a member of one or more of the classes excluded by law ; any alien who shall have entered or who shall be found in the United States in violation of this act, or in violation of any other law of the United States...
Page 3 - ... at any time within three years after entry, any alien who shall have entered the United States by water at any time or place other than as designated by. immigration officials...
Page 5 - States or attempt to return to or to enter the United States shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not more than five years...
Page 5 - ... of this Act, shall, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into custody and deported in the manner provided in the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917. The provisions of this section shall be applicable to the classes of aliens mentioned in this Act, irrespective of the time of their entry into the United States.
Page 4 - ... (c) Aliens who believe in, advise, advocate, or teach, or who are members of or affiliated with any organization, association, society, or group, that believes in, advises, advocates, or teaches : ( 1 ) the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States...
Page 3 - Any alien who shall be found an inmate of or connected with the management of a house of prostitution or practicing prostitution after such alien shall have entered the United States, or who shall receive, share in, or derive benefit from any part of the earnings of any prostitute...
Page 25 - ... any weapon which shoots or is designed to shoot automatically or semiautomatic-ally more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger...
Page 2 - It shall be unlawful for any person — "(1) to knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise, or teach the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence...

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