Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knowing the dual nature of the college, Princeton's admissions office tries to get dual-nature students. Nassau Hall wants "the all-around boy who possesses a sound mind, a healthy diversity of interests, and those qualities of leadership and citizenship which will make him a fine citizen on the campus and in later life...
Beckmann, who took out his U.S. citizenship papers last year, teaches at the Brooklyn Museum Art School two mornings a week, turns up at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel almost every afternoon at 5:00 for a cup of solitary coffee amidst the potted palms. "It is there," he says, "that I make my fantasies for my work." He often puts fish in his pictures "because I like fish, both to eat and to look at. Also they are symbols." What do they symbolize? "Geist-spirit," Beckmann replies positively. "But the man who looks at my pictures must figure them...
There is, moreover, a lengthy list of people awaiting a Supreme Court definition of requirements for United States citizenship. In this group is Harry Bridges, head of Pacific Coast Longshoremen, who is under Federal indictment for using improper methods in obtaining citizenship in 1945. At that time the government tried to deport Bridges, but the Supreme Court found that the District Attorney did not prove his accusation--Bridges was not a Communist. Two former German Bund leaders, Fritz Kuhn, and August Klaprott, and one of Al Capone's old assistants, Anthony Volpe, may also have their cases reviewed this session...
...inability of the university to secure the services of Professor Glen Shortliffe of Queens University is extremely unfortunate. In the judgment of his colleague in the field of Romance languages, Professor Shortliffe is an excellent teacher, a promising scholar and a man of the finest qualifications of citizenship and character...
...embarrassing discovery. The Birmingham Post, a vigorous supporter of the inquiry, dug into the histories of the 18 new grand jurors and splashed its findings across Page One. One juror had been a Ku Kluxer himself. Another had served two years in prison for a felony, lost his citizenship rights. Five others, including the foreman, had police records for drunkenness or disorderly conduct. The only Negro on the grand jury could neither read nor write. Circuit Judge George Lewis Bailes decided there was only one "reasonable, humane and practical" way out: he fired the ex-convict from the jury, temporarily...