Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open letter to Citizen Doumergue, soon read by all Paris, No. 1 Fascist de la Roque declared...
William Edward Dodd. the fighting North Carolina Baptist who is U. S. Ambassador to Germany, got orders from the State Department last week "to proceed actively to clarify the status" of Miss Isobel Lillian Steele, a U. S. citizen who had sat incommunicado for 88 days in a Nazi jail. The German Government refused to tell Ambassador Dodd what charges have been made against Miss Steele. To her friends, however, there was no great mystery about why Isobel is in trouble...
...lean, ebullient girl with a long, inquisitive nose and an assertive chin. Born in Canada, educated in California, naturalized a U. S. citizen, she has studied the violin for four years in Germany. With her German-born mother and younger sister, she has roamed the fringes of Berlin's international society, having a lovely time, not in the least shy of discussing her opinions of Nazi Germany with all comers. She wrote little articles and translations for a few German papers voicing what she called "honest criticism about this or that." She dashed off long chatty letters...
Died. William Lawrence Clements, 73, famed collector of early Americana and first citizen of Bay City, Mich.; in Bay City. Son of an enterprising steel manufacturer, he took over and ably expanded his father's business, retired a rich man in 1924. Growing apace, meantime, was the renown of the books & manuscripts he was carefully assembling. In 1923 he presented them to the University of Michigan (which had graduated him in 1882) and threw in a graceful white building to house them. The collection includes 50,000 documents of the Earl of Shelburne, British Prime Minister...
...violent demonstrations on questions political or otherwise, he must expect to find himself involved in difficulties for which he may or may not be responsible. Whether or no he oversteps the bounds of the law, he must accept the same penalty as would be meted out to an ordinary citizen. The mere fact that he is a student entitles him to no special consideration...