Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King Albert of Belgium, King George of England, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral or London's residential districts. He has commanded almost 100 dirigibles. For three years (1925-27), he worked for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. at Akron, learned English, decided to take out U. S. citizenship papers, changed his mind temporarily. He will settle, he thinks, wherever manufacture and operation of dirigibles promise him the best fortune...
...Federation is to discuss the significant movements in education, this year it is being devoted especially to the promotion of peace through education. Prof. Gilbert Murray of Oxford. President of the League of Nations Committee of Intellectual Cooperation, warned against expecting too much from teaching citizenship, foreign languages, or from travel. He concluded. "... A better road to international goodwill is to cultivate common memories, associations, and aims. That is. to cultivate such subjects as ancient history, Latin, or physical science...
Baker Krusack is Jencic's confidant and civic tutor. He got Jencic's citizenship papers for him at the City Hall and delivered with them this speech: "Now . . . you belong here and nobody can run over you. If anybody makes trouble for you, stand right up to him and tell him not to forget who you are. . . . The new nationalities are according to jobs. Some of these days nobody will ever say a man is a Swiss or a Slav or anything like that; they will say he is a plumber or a baker or a machinist...
...else my amendment might be and whatever else might be said about it-and plenty has been said-surely there is no basis for characterizing it as illegal. In fact, without my amendment the apportionment bill is not constitutional. Section 1 of the 14th amendment of the Constitution extended citizenship to the colored race. Section 2 of the same amendment provided for the apportionment of representatives among the several States according to their respective numbers and also provided that the basis of representation "shall" be reduced in proportion to the number of citizens denied the right to vote...
...years (1893-95) when a deadlock in the Wyoming legislature on selecting a Senator reused a vacancy. The second Warren flight began March 4, 1895 and has continued ever since, with the aged Senator still flying vigorously and giving no sign of coming down into the field of private citizenship. This continuous stretch of service has been surpassed by only one U. S. Senator-William Boyd Allison. (1873-1908) of Iowa whose non-stop record of 35 years, five months will fall when Senator Warren and the calendar reach Sept...