Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faculty of 40 were: President Wallace W. Atwood of Clark University, geography; Dean Heckel of Missouri, citizenship; Dean Howes of Williams, Greek and Latin; Professors Piero Glacosa of the University of Turin, institutions and culture; Leslie J. Ayer of the University of Washington, international law; Ellwood Griscom Jr. of the University of Texas, public speaking; Dean Lough and Robert MacDougall of New York University, psychology; Eugen Oberhummer of the University of Vienna, geography; Will C. Rufus of the University of Michigan, astronomy...
...French, to intercede with Premier Briand. The Premier had negotiated with War Minister Painlevé. The Minister had telegraphed to Damascus. Iron must give a little under pressure. Of course M. Doty had on occasion been brave, had received the Croix de Guerre. So, although he had sacrificed his citizenship and the U. S. Government had no recourse against any decision it might render, and though the law of the Legion is unremitting, the courts martial considered it advisable to sentence defiant Deserter Doty to but eight years at hard labor. "His record of bravery...
Ruth Bryan eloped shortly before the War with Major Reginald Owen, a British army officer, and accompanied him in service in Palestine. Her political opponents declare her ineligible for office through her loss of citizenship on marrying Major Owen. However, this is not true. The Cable Act of 1922 provides that an American woman citizen does not lose her citizenship upon marriage to an alien...
...preserved the Swedish tongue in many rites, but remarked, "on the other hand you must see that it is your self-evident duty as American citizens to master fully the English Language and the ideals of this country, that you may become good citizens and fulfill obligations of American citizenship...
Those who talk of their "rights as a citizen" are never clear either about their rights or their citizenship. Most of their talk is far too compact of selfishness. But when the chief executive of such a government as that of the American nation leans too heavily toward either side of a situation which at best is a very difficult one can sanely be afraid lest that accurate balance between state and central government is truly one with "the consulship of Manlius...