Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strecker . . . voted for Al Smith in 1928, ... for Mr. Foster in 1932." But in 1933 he was not yet a citizen, according to TIME [Feb. 20]. What goes on here...
...Smith refused to run on the State Democratic ticket with him and at last Hearst knew he would never be President. And so after 27 years in the East he moved back to California and began to surround himself with a grandeur that no other private citizen has ever matched in U. S. history...
After the World War many a disillusioned U. S. citizen-soldier swore that the Government would have to drag him off the dock at Hoboken to make him go to another European war. In Britain much the same attitude developed. Widespread was the feeling that in another Anglo-French war against Germany and her allies, Britain should furnish a fleet, money and materials while France supplied the army...
Under the terms of the lecture foundation, which was established in 1903 in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, editor of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, the speaker must deal with some aspect of "the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen." Recent Godkin lecturers, include Walter Lippmann and Heinrich Bruening...
...Bureau of Fisheries: "The exhaustion of fish resources has no parallel." Of the CCC: "The opportunity for tremendous advancement was largely muffed." Of the Bureau of Public Lands: "... a past record of exploitation crimes which prohibit its claim to any part in national conservation." Of the average citizen: "As unconscious of the objectives ... of national planning as Ferdinand the Bull. . . . Both of them just love to smell flowers, but that is as far as they go." And having said his say, disgruntled "Ding" resigned...