Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which women of 52 are conscripted, given arms, drilled, regimented and sent to the front to fight, is hard to imagine. Yet a majority of the Supreme Court of the U. S. last week did imagine such a situation vividly enough to deny citizenship to an alien woman of 52 who declined to promise to bear arms in defense...
...Henry Ford to undertake his Peace-Ship trip in 1915. Once, under Count Karolyi's regime (1919) she was Hungary's minister to Switzerland. Eight years ago she settled permanently in the U. S., set up residence in Illinois. Two years ago she applied for U. S. citizenship, Question 22 of the application asks if the applicant, as a citizen, would bear arms in defense...
...Products Protective Committee, consisted of an "open letter" headed: "Shall the air be given over to destructive propaganda?"? This letter was addressed to the Advisory Council of National Broadcasting Co. Since the Advisory Council numbers among its members a long list of men and women whose U. S. citizenship is a source of U. S. pride, and since the Lucky Strike campaign has been widely, conspicuously flayed, the Open Letter was essentially a sharp contrast between the admittedly high character of the Council and the allegedly low character of the campaign. Said the Letter...
Sirs: Apropos the British diplomatist's remark that "since the good God made us so that we all cannot get through the same door at once, there must be precedence," we have in our Washington contretemps what L. P. Jacks in Constructive Citizenship designates as among the deepest characteristics of the modern mind,-i. e. "an overdeveloped faculty for thinking in space, and an underdeveloped or perhaps decayed faculty for thinking in time. With space-thinking alone to guide us we are apt to think our work done when we have devised a social scheme, system, or envisaged-diagram...
...Canada or naturalized Canadians could not under the 1924 U. S. Immigration Act commute across the U. S. border to daily work. Minister Massey had protested to the U. S. on this interpretation, originally made by the Labor Department, on the ground that it goes behind Canada's citizenship laws, discriminates between native and foreign-born citizens of the Dominion. The Supreme Court's decision immediately barred some 600 Canadian workers at Detroit...