Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further fact is that the American citizen does not like this. . . Is it not utterly ridiculous to consider any type of legislation whatsoever which will allow this deplorable alliance with Japan to continue? Why do not the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee make short work of each and every proposal which does not have the mechanism TO STOP THIS COUNTRY FROM ARMING JAPAN? . . . Despite public statements to the fact that we are no longer shipping bombing planes to Japan, informed persons know that other types of planes can be shipped, that airplane parts cross...
...political. Governors always want to be Pres- idents. . . ." But Mayor Hoan, a Socialist whose boast is that his city budget balances, added that he wished for a pay-as-you-go WPA, financed by taxes, not bond issues! "Let me tell you, as an American citizen, it worries me, this going deeper and deeper into debt...
...Christy" has been a U. S. citizen for the past 50 years, but his broad Norwegian accent, his preferences for rye bread and prim, batwing collars, stamp him unmistakably as an old-worldling. So, perhaps, does the self-effacing devotion to music that makes St. Olaf's lusty youngsters hang on his every word and glance. Critics have often asked him how he manages to get such results with a constantly changing group of college students. Says he, grinning good-naturedly: "Character is what counts. ... If it comes to a choice between character and exceptional voice, I choose character...
Although the U. S. Constitution guarantees freedom of the press against statutory attack, there is only one Federal law which guarantees it against attack by individuals. This is Title 18, Section 51 of the U. S. Code, directed against persons who "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution. . . ." Passed in 1870 as a weapon against the KuKluxKlan, Section 51 has since been used occasionally in cases involving intimidation of witnesses or voters, such as last year's Kansas City vote...
...Metropolitan's own trap for visitors to the New York World's Fair, the exhibition will stay open until October 29. Notable U. S. paintings which many a U. S. citizen will see for the first time...