Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mill of Ellis Island. One of the number was swarthy, stocky Fortunate Manure, a Sicilian. In the United States Fortunato Manure did not do so badly. He raised a family of seven children, worked as a laborer at various jobs, was able to act enough like a U. S. citizen to get himself a U. S. passport, but the Depression of 1929 left him without a job. One son found work in Philadelphia, the rest of the Manure family in 1931 joined thousands of other disillusioned immigrants and trekked back to Italy. In 1935 Fortunato Manure was called...
...events are described with the greatest possible fidelity to the facts. Cotton Mather, the austere and prejudiced young minister from Boston, appears at first as a wholly detestable figure in the book, but upon consideration we realize that his closed mind was no different from the of almost every citizen of Salem. Samuel Parris, whose interest in the conviction of several of the witches was more than a religious one, Nathaniel Saltonsall, the only man in Salem who had the strength to stand up and refuse to assist at the trials, and many others remain in our memory as living...
...plausible analysis of the U. S. Road to War in 1914-17 (TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.), able Writer Walter Millis two years ago pointed out what looked to four U. S. Senators-Nye, Clark, Vandenberg and Bone-and to many a plain citizen, like a plain road to peace. If it were true that the U. S. had fought in the World War not to make the world safe for democracy but to save the frog-skins of its merchants and moneylenders, then the gloriously sure and simple way for it to stay out of the next...
...State Cordell Hull apologized orally: "I very earnestly deprecate the utterances which have given offense. . . . They do not represent the attitude of this Government toward the German Government." Mr. Hull's words-"in this country, the right of freedom of speech is guaranteed by the Constitution to every citizen and is cherished as a part of the national heritage"-sounded like another veiled dig at the regimented Reich, but Germany let that pass and the incident was closed officially...
...Armistice, Col. Harold Fowler had been wounded four times, shot down seven times, decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal. He celebrated by flying his plane under the Arc de Triomphe. Next time Harold Fowler popped into the news was in 1927 when he became the first U. S. citizen to ride in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. He was thrown twice. Next year he was thrown again. Other activities have been diplomacy, traveling, big-game hunting...