Word: citizen
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When a reporter sought comment on the Chotiner investigation (see below), the President laid down a two-prong code of ethics for the Government people under him. Every citizen must receive courteous treatment, he said, but at the same time, if anyone comes claiming privileges on the basis of a White House connection, "he is to be thrown out instantly...
...long pull, it is false to contend that "just because the uniform was worn for a while, the Government owes the former wearer a living. The ordinary losses of time and opportunity while in military service must be regarded as part of the responsibilities of a citizen, and only extreme or extraordinary handicaps should be regarded as creating an obligation on the Government...
Because the ravages of infectious diseases have been so drastically reduced in recent years by modern medicine, the average middle-aged U.S. citizen today is physiologically at least four years "younger" than his grandfather was at the same age. So said Dr. Hardin Jones last week in a report to the Western Gerontological Society in Los Angeles. By analyzing disease and mortality tables, Dr. Jones, University of California physiologist, has developed a new theory based on the proposition that infectious diseases and injuries cause successive impairment of the body's metabolic mechanisms. Conversely, the fewer diseases and injuries...
...Citizen Kane, Orson Welles' masterpiece, has returned to the Brattle. Should not be missed...
...work on the Brunonian, Brown's literary magazine, had given him the opportunity to do so, but he was running out of material. In his study of law Chafee found a great untapped subject which was to become his lifelong interest--civil rights. The guaranteed liberties of the American citizen gripped Chafee's imagination and became the material for intense exploration. From these first intellectual groping came such monumental work as Freedom of Speech (1920), America Now (1938) and Free Speech in the United States...