Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...married sister, a U. S. citizen, brought her to this country. In Chicago she became a milliner. She took out her first citizenship papers; her second papers have been filed and now await a hearing. Last spring she received a message from Warsaw that her father was dying. Forthwith she applied for a permit to re-enter the U. S., obtained it, sailed for Poland. Her father recovered. She started back for Chicago. In Paris her purse and her permit were stolen, but the U. S. consul at Paris assured her that she would have no trouble re-entering this...
...Hugh S. ("Mail Order") Magill, independent Republican Dry, who is backed by Julius Rosenwald in "a revolt of good citizenship" against the two other "slush" candidates. In August, Mr. Rosenwald, head of the mail order house of Sears, Roebuck & Co., visited President Coolidge, is believed to have told him about the grimy political situation in Illinois. Mr. Rosenwald says that he, himself, is "a dub in politics" but that he is firmly convinced of the worthiness of Mr. Magill. Mr. Magill's name will be put on the November ballot as the result of a petition filed last week...
...expressed by a plurality of those who take the trouble to vote. ...Taking our state and municipal elections, and averaging them for the country as a whole, the figures show that the will of the people is regularly expressed by less than twenty per cent of our adult citizenship, or about ten per cent of the population. What was have in fact, therefore, is not a government by the whole people, or by a majority of the people, or even by a majority, of the registered voters, but government by a mere plurality of the politically active...
...School for Social Research (Manhattan), to which no college training is prerequisite and of which the aim is enlightened citizenship, entered its eighth year with the following, among other notables, scheduled to lecture: Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College (history, sociology); Dr. John B. Watson, onetime psychology chief at Johns Hopkins, author of Behaviorism (psychology); Dr. S. Ferenczi of Hungary, colleag of Dr. Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis...
...pinking him often and severely before they could eject him. He promptly came to the New World to heal his wounds of heart and body and to win his spurs in real action. With Washington and his colleagues he was at once popular and prominent. In 1783 Congress bestowed citizenship upon him, gave him lands, a pension, the rank of brigadier general, thanked him. * Not to be confused with Pelmanism, from the Pelman Institute, through which Power in such things is taught. Said a Manhattan newspaper of the Charm course: "How to eat peas without mashed potatoes...