Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Financing the first year's primary training of 20,000 citizen-pilots in commercial schools...
...Edwin Russell, a prominent citizen of New Hyde Park, N. Y.* (pop.: 3,314) last week announced that a local library club had voted 13-to-2 to boycott Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book, Listen! The Wind! "I objected," ejaculated Mr. Russell, "to the purchase of this book, and as an American citizen refuse to be a partner to any operation that means royalty or profit to Mr. & Mrs. Lindbergh in the light of the recent publicity they have...
...citizen who had the most to do with getting them home was an adventuresome San Francisco capitalist named Frederick B. Thompson, brother of Novelist Kathleen Norris. In his remarkable past he has played around with such varied characters as Jack London and Mexico's Rebel Pancho Villa. He had long since retired with a comfortable fortune and stomach ulcers when, in 1937, his young son David and his young nephew Jimmy Benét (son of Poet William Rose Benét) went to fight in Spain. Word that David had been wounded took Frederick Thompson posthaste to Madrid...
...unanimously passed resolution recommending legislation to prevent foreigners resident in the Americas from exercising collective political rights claimed for them by their countries of origin. Under this restriction it is doubtful whether even a U. S. citizen resident in a Latin American State would be allowed to exercise his absentee vote in the U. S. Hence the U. S. delegation voted for a measure which, if passed, would probably be most unpopular at home. But the measure's chief benefit was obviously to Argentina, Brazil and Chile, where large German and Italian blocs have been agitating for minority rights...
Died. Robert Herrick, 70, veteran novelist of departed social issues (The Memoirs of an American Citizen, Together, The Master of the Inn), onetime (1905-23) professor of English at the University of Chicago, Government secretary of the Virgin Islands since 1935; of a heart attack; in Charlotte Amalie...