Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the customs officials refused to allow this alibi, on the ground that wives, however undomestic, if not legally separated from their husbands, must share the citizenship of their men, Ganna Walska produced a lawyer who last week said he would appeal to Washington because...
...have also given deep consideration to the other items mentioned: (a) Am I a British subject? Did I ever apply for such citizenship? No. Many generations of persecuted Quaker ancestors would rise in their graves at such a discovery. ... (b) Did I ever rent a "residence" abroad? I plead guilty of this crime and in mitigation I do appeal to the feelings of fathers who object to hotel life for babies and children. ... (d) I plead guilty to the criminal charge of pursuing my engineering profession in foreign parts again and again. I have a fervent hope, however, that this...
...youth, its rum-running, moonshining, bootlegging and consequent terrifying crime and other deep-seated evils -for all of which the Anti-Saloon League is directly responsible- Mr. Cherrington ["Educational Director" of the League] seems to be in mortal fear lest what was once the brewing industry should exercise good citizenship by helping to clear up the nauseating mess into which the Anti-Saloon League had dragged the country...
...great when he finds that he has not been arrested, that the ticket is merely an admission to the next policemen's ball or euchre-fest or field day. The citizen now exhibits his nonchalance in the presence of the Law, also his good-fellowship and good-citizenship, by buying the ticket, or several tickets. Not infrequently the citizen caps his gesture by telling the officer to keep the tickets, pass 'em around to his friends and "kiddies." The policeman, if not an imbecile, soon peddles the same tickets over again. Policemen being what they so often...
Decided that restricted immigration was just and fair but adopted the resolution of Missionary E. Stanley Jones urging "all Christian citizens to unite in removing as soon as possible such legislation that restricts immigration and the rights of citizenship on grounds of race and color...