"The place was taken over by the alien property custodian," said Harry.

When World War I broke out, he was interned and his assets confiscated as alien property.

It was in this capacity that Fisk was sued by the federal government for $25,000 for his mishandling of alien property cases.

He resumed his former business pursuits in New York City and was a consultant and alien property custodian.

Alien Property Custodian, investigative reports, in file box relating to Vesting Order Number 126.

By World War I, many companies were forced to sever their ties to German corporate parents or have their assets seized as alien property.

Either the outside is made of some metal that we've never heard of before ... and this thing has alien properties, I'll tell you that right now.

In 1915 Chambord was sequestered by the French government as alien property, since Elias held a commission in the Austrian Army.

Finally, the United States Office of Alien Property transferred a sum of just over $45,000 to the liquidators and authorized them to transfer it to the Austrian Government.

After the U.S. declared war on Germany in April 1917, alien property custodian A. Mitchell Palmer began investigating German-owned businesses, and soon turned his attention to Bayer.

He was vice-president of the West Virginia Board of Trade, chairman of the West Virginia Good Roads Commission, and alien property administrator from 1925 to 1933.

On March 11, Executive Order 9095 created the Office of the Alien Property Custodian and gave it discretionary, plenary authority over all alien property interests.

An "act concerning voting by resident alien property owners", "to allow alien property owners to vote at town meetings and referenda", was submitted to the Connecticut General Assembly in 2003.

The Alien Act provided that Scottish nationals in England were to be treated as aliens (foreign nationals), and estates held by Scots would be treated as alien property, making inheritance much less certain.

In 1925, as an assistant United States attorney in Manhattan, he took part in an investigation of fraud in the custody of alien property, helping to send Thomas W. Miller, the Federal custodian, to prison.

Walter Oppenhoff joined the firm in 1930 as named partner, led it through the World War II, inter alia as the alien property custodian of Coca-Cola, and expanded the firm in the post-war years.

London can pass all the housing related planning applications and government can subsides it all they want, but until it becomes accessible for residents to buy in a particular area without having to compete with an alien property market there will always be a housing problem in the capital.

An Alien Property Custodian was an office within the Government of the United States during World War I and again during World War II, serving as a Custodian of Enemy Property to property that belonged to US enemies.

When President Wilson needed to fill the position of Attorney General at the start of 1919, party officials, including Palmer's colleagues on the Democratic National Committee and many recipients of his patronage during his tenure as Alien Property Custodian, backed him against other candidates with stronger legal credentials.

His son George Ehret Jr. agreed to turn over the family's $40 million business to the United States - Ehret was an American citizen, but the federal government's alien property custodian, A. Mitchell Palmer, said that the 82-year-old Ehret's temporary residence in Germany was enough to trigger the action.

In 1918 at the height of World War I, H. Hackfeld & Co. was seized by the American government as alien property (since many of the Hackfeld and Isenberg heirs still lived in Germany), and was sold to a newly formed consortium, American Factors.