Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite of the Shah's eleven children. When Son Reza decided to marry an Egyptian an Iranian law, requiring that the heir to the throne marry an Iranian, stood in his way. The Shah soon took care of that. A special measure was passed making Princess Fawziya a citizen of Iran...
...Corrigan of Washington's Catholic University of America, announced a crusade for "God in Government." U. S. Catholics are to pledge themselves to "defend the republic against atheistic propaganda, to maintain respect for rightly constituted authority and finally to combat fearlessly every invasion of the rights of any citizen or any group of citizens...
...Teachers' Oath is in theory a harmless law which requires teachers to swear allegiance to the Federal and State Constitutions. Since Section 2a of this law stipulates that "nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere in any way with the basic principles of the Constitution which assures every citizen freedom of thought and speech," the oath does not appear to deviate too far from the precepts of democracy. But, unfortunately, this law has quite a different de facto meaning when it is enforced in a community where there is strong local feeling against alien social systems like Communism...
...Tennessee State Legislature, State Senator Lem Motlow, long vexed by tobacco auctioneers' gabble-gobble, introduced a bill requiring every Tennessee auctioneer "to speak distinctly and slowly enough so that he may be understood by the average citizen...
...storm cloud. At 45, accounted one of the dozen most accomplished U. S. painters, Kuniyoshi has begun to make money after years in which he "did everything but commercial art" to keep alive. One thing annoys him: having been born in Japan he cannot become a U. S. citizen...