Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americanized, non-reservation Indians became citizens in 1891, under the Dawes Act (24 U. S. Stats, at L. 390); all tribal, reservation Indians, not theretofore citizens, became such in 1924 (43 U. S. Stats, at L. 253). The present discomfort of the Indian lies, not in his lack of citizenship, but in the fact that although a citizen he is not generally accorded the social services to which a citizen is entitled, and that he yet remains in spite of citizenship, a Federal ward without many of the advantages of tutelage...
Such tendencies as these divert college life from its proper sphere within the arts and sciences, and place an emphasis upon military training, which even its platitudinous ideals of "better citizenship" and "mental and moral development" can hardly justify...
...Michigan, "Twenty-four-votes-for-Underwood" Brandon of Alabama, to lunch and to ask the President to attend the next conference of Governors to be held either at Mackinac Island (Michigan), or at Cheyenne; Socialist Congressman Victor Louis Berger of Wisconsin to ask the President to restore rights of citizenship to Eugene V. Debs (see POLITICAL NOTES); Senators Lenroot and Willis, to ask the President to oppose an ocean ship canal through New York to the Great Lakes (see THE CONGRESS...
During the War, Mr. Debs was imprisoned for violating the Espionage Act. Later President Harding commuted his sentence, but as a result of his imprisonment he lost his citizenship, which was never restored to him. Although he was born in the U. S., he might be debarred as an alien if he left the country and then tried to return...
Last week Victor Louis Berger, Socialist Congressman from Wisconsin, applied to President Coolidge and to Attorney General Sargent to have Mr. Debs' citizenship restored. The Attorney General was of the opinion that Mr. Debs would first have to make application for pardon. Various opinions...