Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That brought the house down. With a sly dig at Vice President Barkley's attentions to Mrs. Carleton Hadley of St. Louis, he added: "I am exceedingly glad that he is about to become a citizen of Missouri." The following day-after a side trip to Independence-Harry Truman flew back to the White House, glowing with good spirits and leaving Missouri in a pleasant twitter of excitement over the Veep's romantic intentions...
...guilty of treason. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, she had traitorously taunted Pacific theater G.I.s with a radio broadcast: "Orphans of the Pacific, you really are orphans now. How will you get home, now that all your ships are sunk?" She was the sixth U.S. citizen convicted of treason since the end of World War II.* The minimum sentence Iva could draw under the conviction: five years in prison and $10,000 fine; the maximum: death...
Despite the relative freedom of border crossings,* and even allowing a tolerance for the imponderables of red tape, most Canadians felt such incidents occurred all too frequently. Said the Ottawa Citizen: "United States immigration authorities have been applying a 'thought control' policy that in recent months has caused many Canadians inconvenience and humiliation...
...Henderson case involving segregation on southern railroads, or the disputes concerning segregation in southern universities. The Henderson appeal came up from the Baltimore Federal District Court which ruled that, since there was no evidence of inequality, Henderson, a negro, failed to show where his rights as a citizen were abridged. Thus, the Supreme Court must decide whether, as Henderson alleges, "inequality always accompanies segregation...
Michel: I am not of American origin, nor of British. I am French, Parisian as well. And, my dear Citizen of the World, I do not believe in buffoonery. Do you know the meaning of the word? It is something like what a little dog does, but not quite. France has given you privileges. That is the way France...