Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill (twitting the State Department) to relieve aliens (such as Irishmen) from swearing allegiance to their former rulers (such as George VI) upon applying for U. S. citizenship...
Dodger Bergdoll said he had returned to pay up, be with his family and raise them as good Americans. He may not have that privilege. The Army may retry, resentence him for his escape. The U. S. Department of Labor contends that he has renounced his U. S. citizenship, is therefore deportable as an undesirable alien. The various agencies still interested in Grover Bergdoll could let him serve his time, then return him to Nazi Germany, where he no longer wants to live...
Marriage disclosed. Henry M. Blackmer, onetime Midwest Refining Co. head, fugitive from the U. S. since 1924, when he was wanted as witness in the Teapot Dome investigation; to Eide Norena, Norwegian soprano; in Paris. The French Foreign Office, fearing to offend the U. S., has withheld citizenship from Blackmer but let him go on living in Paris after his U. S. passport expired...
...Union common citizenship, a Union free-trade economy, a common currency, and a common postal system are some of the essentials of the plan as presented by Streit, while at the same time each nation will practice "democracy at home...
...correspondent uses this analogy to point out the nature of the proposed transition, which is to be from a league of states to a union of citizens. The nations which would band together in such a union would have a common citizenship, defense force, currency and communications system. There would be no customs barriers within the union...