Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masks a minute instead of one mask every 35 min. He got the idea for his dry shaver while recovering from dysentery in Alaska, used profits from his patents on pencil sharpeners to start making it in 1931. Living in Montreal for his health, he had been a Canadian citizen since 1935. Last fortnight he was named by the Joint Congressional Committee on Tax Evasion & Avoidance for having four personal holding companies in the Bahamas...
...Between the third term precedent and the welfare of the country, can any patriotic citizen hesitate as to which course he will take...
Suggested by Michigan's Democratic Senator Prentiss Brown in a Bunker Hill Day speech in Boston last week was a novel method of suppressing industrial warfare: repeal the Constitutional right to bear arms, a privilege guaranteed by the Bill of Rights to every U. S. citizen. While Senator Brown was advancing this notion, a Michigan Representative was invoking this very Constitutional privilege by turning his law office into a recruiting office for a private army...
...Engineers Corps, invented the Schick electric dry shaver manufactured in New Haven, drew big royalties. In 1933 he formed a Bahama corporation to receive his royalties, thereby making a saving in taxes. In 1935 by special dispensation of his friend Prime Minister Bennett of Canada he became a Canadian citizen, without the customary five years' steady residence. He formed more Bahama companies and transferred a big block of securities to them and could not be stopped in any way from doing so because he was no longer a U. S. citizen...
...done, take arms for a cause which nothing but his intellectual approval could justify his serving but which his intellect condemned is hardly a fit person either to train or to 'influence' young men. No amount of good talk now or hereafter about the 'duty of the citizen towards the general government' will ever do away with the effect of his example.... No crime against society to which faction or sophistry or passion can tempt will ever equal that to the commission of which he has devoted the last four years of his life. Unless his first appearance...