Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salt Lake City, Utah, he talked about it, in his usual vein, to local newshawks. Promptly the news was flashed from coast to coast: Senator Norris would not run again in 1936. Franklin Roosevelt, questioned about the news in press conference, genially expanded. Said he: "If I were a citizen of Nebraska, regardless of what party I belonged to, I would not allow George Norris to retire from the United States Senate, whether he wanted to or not, for the very good reason that I feel he is necessary not only to Nebraska but to the United States as long...
...this touched off other incidents last week as Chinese all over China roused one another against the Japanese menace. Mobs in Shanghai stoned Japanese stores and 150,000 Chinese fled the Chinese quarter of Shanghai into the International Settlement, ruled by Occidentals under a U. S. citizen. Secretary General Stirling Fessenden of the Shanghai Municipal Council. What chiefly irritated Japanese last week was the curt announcement of the Occidental police of the International Settlement that the Japanese marine's uncaught murderer seems also to have been wearing a Japanese marine uniform...
...await jubilee celebrations on Nov. 25. That day Walter Damrosch will conduct a choral-orchestral program at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall; Secretary of State Hull will address a gathering in Washington's Pan American Union Building, built with Carnegie funds ; Pittsburgh will honor its onetime first citizen; more than 2,000 U. S. colleges, schools, libraries that Carnegie endowed will unveil his por trait...
...citizen may submit a nomination for the Hall of Fame. Any U. S. hero dead 25 years may be nominated. When the Hall of Fame was originated in 1900 by N. Y. U.'s late Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken, it was expected to be filled by the year 2000. But The Electors whom the University appoints for each quinquennial election have grown fussier & fussier. In the election of 1900 it was easy to fill 29 niches with superheroes. In 1905 eight lesser heroes were elected, in 1910 ten, and since then the number has steadily dwindled until last week...
...exciting as ever. For the public, on the other hand, it has steadily lost zest since the duster & goggles era. In those days the average automobile owner knew his car intimately, could take it apart even if he could not put it together again. Today, when many a citizen in the most motorized nation on earth never sees the engine of his car except when a service station attendant lifts the hood to check the oil, most owners are ignorant of automotive engineering, take mechanical excellence for granted, are chiefly interested in appearance, comfort, economy, safety. And what determines...