Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the U. S. has been his winter home for many years, he has never applied for U. S. citizenship, considers himself a permanent Russian refugee. A mournful-visaged, crop-headed aristocrat, who was dispossessed of his Russian estates by the revolution of 1917, he is even sicker of Russia's present government than of his besetting Prelude. Asked recently what kind of government would attract him back to Russia again, Rachmaninoff replied: "A better...
...Tsar, he presumably will attempt to sell the distillers on policing themselves. Said he: "I am undertaking the office...hoping that by cooperation with the public authorities we can eliminate all aspects of the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages which may be offensive to important groups of our citizenship...
...Nazis came into power, although no Jewess, she was divorced from her Nazi husband (Gustaf Gründgens, now head of the Berlin State Theatre), and produced a satirical political revue, Peppermill, in Munich, her birthplace. For this piece of audacity she had to flee Germany and her citizenship was revoked by Adolf Hitler. She met and married Britain's Poet W.H. Auden, like her a zealous antifascist. At the risk of her life, she returned secretly to Germany to get some of her father's manuscripts. Last year she arrived in Manhattan, applied for U.S. citizenship. Today...
...case of Joseph Strecker, Austrian born and a confessed onetime Communist. His contention that he is entitled to citizenship since Communist Party membership does not imply advocacy of violent tactics, accepted by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, has been appealed to the Supreme Court...
...sudden hope last week by an unexpected passage in Il Duce's speech at Trieste, most of which was devoted to possibilities of war (see p. 15). Although declaring that "World Jewry, during sixteen years, has been an irreconcilable enemy of Fascism," Premier Mussolini added, "Jews of Italian citizenship, however, possessing indisputable military and civic merits toward Italy and the Regime, will find understanding and justice! As for the other Jews, a policy of separation will be followed. In the end the world, perhaps, will be surprised more at our generosity than at our severity...