Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fashionable soiree in an elegant apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue. Among the guests was Novelist Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast, who joined the Communist Party in 1943, won the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953 but quit the Communist Party in noisy but regretful disgust after Hungary. At the party, says Fast in a 30,000-word article prepared for publication next month in a new magazine called Prospectus,* the fascinating folk around him included...
...including lost baggage) under the Warsaw Convention of 1929, an international treaty imposing a ceiling of $8,300 on allowable damages for physical injuries suffered in international flights unless the claimant can prove willful misconduct. By thus voting public funds to correct the restriction of a U.S. citizen's rights by treaty, the House took legislative notice of an inequity so far generally overlooked by Ohio's Republican Senator John Bricker and his Bricker Amendment followers. Also voted: $33,236 for Gypsy Markoff, injured in the same crash. ¶ Cited, in the House, three Un-American Activities Committee...
Nine years after she jumped from the third floor of the Russian consulate in Manhattan to escape being shanghaied back to Russia, 61-year-old former Schoolteacher Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, still ailing, became a U.S. citizen at a heavily guarded ceremony in Boston...
...stage of the ancient theater of Herodes Atticus at the foot of the Acropolis, a frail old lady stood one night last week nodding to the applause of cabinet ministers, diplomats and Athenian intellectuals. The mayor of Athens had just proclaimed Miss Edith Hamilton of Washington, D.C. an honorary citizen, and for an instant it seemed as if she might break down. Instead, Edith Hamilton, just four days short of 90, walked up to a microphone and in a firm voice declared: "I am an Athenian citizen! I am an Athenian citizen! This is the proudest moment...
...spend his youth in the ateliers of Montparnasse and the arms of his models. Nor did he return wearing beard and beret. The measure of his distance from the conventional unconventional background is that he is a respectable father of four, a full professor of art, and a citizen of Texas. For the past 30 years Professor Spruce has been celebrating the flora and fauna of Texas in imaginative oils laid on with a realistic brush. Now the University of Texas is publishing an annual full-color portfolio of the works of artists portraying the Southwest. Its first choice, picked...