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Word: citizenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the full committee filed in around the baize-covered table, they found before them one of the tightest prohibition bills in history-a bill in effect forbidding any U. S. citizen from leaving the Western Hemisphere while war raged outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Phantoms | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...leaders in the list of those of other European countries as of September, 1939 . . . In her position as a mother country and considering her present political status, Ireland (especially Eire) would seem to be inadequately represented by the named governors of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Nor can a citizen of Eire, as exemplified by Cinemactor Errol Flynn, be reasonably designated a Briton when Cinemactor Raymond Massey is designated a Canadian. . . . Seemingly, Mr. Flynn and others like him would be subject to military call from Dublin, if anywhere. Eire yet adheres to her declaration of neutrality in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Last fortnight, Arthur Vandenberg, U. S. Senator since 1928, on the strength of the tradition he trailed 14 years ago, made a bet with his destiny. The stakes were the highest any U. S. citizen can set - the Presidency, in 1941. For Senator Vandenberg went to battle Franklin Roosevelt over what kind of neutrality the U. S. should have in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Michigander | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Sometimes they implied a misplaced sadism, like Louis Ribak's Leading Citizens, in which a chunky citizen in shirt sleeves bullwhips a nude man lashed to a tree trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Open Season | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Dominic Mussolini, 57, unemployed steel worker, second cousin of the Italian dictator, with whom he used to play as a child, became a U. S. citizen in Warren, Ohio. Anton Lang Jr., professor of German at Georgetown University, son of the late Cristus of the Oberammergau Passion Play, filed a petition for U. S. citizenship in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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