Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outraged and appalled that my mind is spluttering! Your article "Why Tax Reform Is So Urgent and So Unlikely" [April 4] should be read and reread by every middle-income citizen of the U.S. All these years, while my husband and I and our two daughters have been trying to keep within our means so that we can pay our bills and taxes as good citizens, we have been taken...
...head of the copy boys to make a citizen's arrest, and we went to see the sheriff. He said, Go see the D.A. The D.A. said, Go see the police. The police said, Go see the D.A. I had one final recourse: to go before a judge and have the arrest made in his presence. The judge, who was a gentleman, accepted it. My employee swore out some complaints, and I insisted they give me a number, take the fingerprints, and so forth." Newhall finally was promised his day in municipal court at the end of the month...
...charge that Negroes are inherently inferior to whites is not new. Neither is it demonstrable. Among other things, it is a canon of racist faith, invoked first to justify slavery and then the Negro's status as a separate-but-unequal U.S. citizen. But Psychologist Jensen is no racist, as his article repeatedly makes clear. "Since, as far as we know, the full range of human talents is represented in all the major races of man," he writes at one point, "it is unjust to allow the mere fact of an individual's racial or social background...
...final judgment on any President lies with history-and historians. Few scholars would care today to deliver a definitive verdict on Dwight Eisenhower, but many have formed tentative opinions. Asked by TIME to assess Ike as President, general and citizen, some leading historians had some well-defined-and remarkably consonant-views...
...group of friends of E. L. Godkin, the first editor of the Nation and a leader in governmental reform, donated $10,000 in 1903 to establish a series of lectures that would deal with 'the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen...