Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other industries. . . . Existing economic facts make their position unjustifiable and indefensible. . . . How can the workers in the textile industry sustain a reduced purchasing power through the imposition of a substantial reduction in wages and at the same time maintain and enjoy a standard of living commensurate with American citizenship? . . . The reprehensible feature of it is that it is a forced reduction in wages. The workers have not been consulted regarding acceptance or rejection. It is a reduction in wages that has been imposed and enforced in spite of the opposition and protest of the workers affected. The representatives...
...colorful contemporaries live in the book, continuously and visibly. Their author does not psychoanalyze or otherwise distort them. She has employed, with notable poise and richness, the formula of Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga against a thoroughly U. S. background, Chicago. Residents of that vigorous commonty will discredit their citizenship by failing to read this excellent chronicle of its childhood. Other nonreaders will miss a sound, satisfying novel...
Several friendly criticisms of British administration in Palestine were heard. It was alleged that Britain had not passed a nationality act, which left Jews in Palestine without citizenship privileges; that large tracts of undeveloped land, urgently needed for agricultural purposes, had not been turned over to the Jews...
...writer of the article known just a little more about Miami and what a delightful, wonderful city it is and how many thousands of people of the highest type of American citizenship make it their year-round, permanent home he would not have written...
...tests of American citizenship being demanded before any Hawaiian-born Japanese are admitted to the U. S. These in time are sure to become more and more easy to pass, and the barrier is likely to be overridden. Coffee herries, mangoes, alligator pears from Hawaii are rigidly excluded from entrance to the continental U. S.-for fear of importing the Mediterranean fruit fly. Seme Californians wish that Jappo-Americans from Hawaii could be excluded in the same...