Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock train to Manhattan. In his seat in the parlor car he was just one more traveler. Those who failed to recognize his square-cut features, his shag of greying hair, his solid bulk, little dreamed that they were witnessing the departure of a famed citizen on the greatest adventure of his life. William Edgar Borah, after 30 years of uncertain thought, was for the first time actually starting out to try to make himself President...
...last election German ballots were printed with two circles. A cross in the first meant "Ja," a cross in the other "Nein." The new ballots rolling off German presses last week to be used March 29 have only one circle. By making a cross in this the German citizen votes "Ja," and it is impossible for him to cast any other vote. Blank ballots or ballots on which a daring voter might scrawl "Nein" automatically are void...
...that of the birth of Charles William Eliot on March 20, 1834. Not a few in the gathering must have recalled the meeting in Sanders Theatre just twelve years before, when Chief Justice Taft and other distinguished men brought greetings of the nation to Mr. Eliot, "America's first citizen," on his ninetieth birthday. How far, far away now seems that happy afternoon in March...
...many World War veterans will agree with you, possibly even a great majority of them that U. S. participation in the World War was in vain, that human life was sacrificed to rescue ill-placed private property. I am equally certain that World War veterans and good U. S. citizens stand almost united in condemning you for using the disabled for purposes of commercial advertising. Certainly every red-blooded citizen must denounce you for calling them "suckers...
Volume I sets forth the whole system of the U.S.S.R. - what the Webbs call (in a British rather than a U. S. sense) the Constitution. Under this Soviet "constitution" they find the Russian voting and acting in three separate capacities: as citizen, producer, consumer. In each of these capacities he has a vote and a voice; in one of them he has a job. Except for the steadily dwindling minority (2.5% in 1934) of the disfranchised, every Russian acts in this triple role. Over & above this, if he wants to follow "the vocation of public leadership," and can stand...