Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leopoldo Kahn, born an Alsatian Jew, now a French citizen and for 46 years a resident of these Islands, was given the Order of Pope Pius IX by Archbishop O'Doherty with all the appropriate ceremony. Don Leopoldo has always befriended the Church, aiding its charities and giving the country twelve good Catholic sons and daughters (by two wives, mestizas both of them). He was in close contact with the Vatican during the late War and is considered a great friend of Catholicism without ever having professed it as his religion...
...last three decades of the 19th Century he was midwife-in-chief to the infamous Trusts then coming to birth. He has declared that he was then absorbed in the legal aspects of his clients' problems, only later came to realize their social implications. But Root the Citizen took time from his $200,000-a-year practice to help draft an anti-corporation Constitution for New York State, to help Reformer Seth Low become Mayor of New York City on a platform attacking the street railway interests for which he himself was counsel...
...cool and reasonable channels of minds like his. He sat on the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912. In 1920 the League of Nations called him, as a private citizen, to father the World Court. U. S. adherence to the Court thereafter became his dearest wish...
...stepped off the 20th Century Limited in New York's Grand Central Terminal, consented to be photographed, refused to be interviewed, hurried through the almost deserted lobby. A handful of commuters recognized Herbert Hoover, clapped, cheered. On his first visit East since he left the White House, Citizen Hoover came to attend his first meeting as a director of New York Life Insurance...
...18th Century coattails, making gestures of polite affection toward Merle Oberon. The Scarlet Pimpernel, derived from Baroness Orczy's famed best-seller (3,000,000 copies), contains both, picturesquely inlaid against an Alexander Korda background of tumbrels, old inns, the coffee rooms at Black's Club and Citizen Robespierre, snarling in falsetto...