Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should educate the masses in the duties of good citizenship, in a better understanding and appreciation of the spirit of the American Government, in the broader meanings of patriotism and a stronger devotion to the flag and the glorious things for which it stands...
...oldfashioned, truly American family circle, and to stop a lot of this uplift gush, this indiscriminate spending of money in social and charity and welfare work. In short, while welfare clubs, organizations and societies are meeting, conferring and resoluting, the home and fireside, the bulwark of good citizenship, is left in charge of the cat and canary. "Can we wonder that our children go wrong? Petted, pampered, educated at the expense of the State, robbed of self-reliance and independence, we send them forth as weaklings to take up the rugged path of life for themselves...
After the War, he came to Washington, was introduced by the old friends of his uncle into the best social circles. To earn a living, he proclaimed himself a Pole, applied for U. S. citizenship, accepted the Presidency of the Polish-American Navigation Co., which had a claim* against the U. S. Government. The Shipping Board refused the claim. But the Company had 30,000 stockholders and the support of 4,000,000 Poles throughout the U. S. The Count, their champion, got 25 Harding administration Senators to back his claim. With their signatures, he admonished the Shipping Board...
...hundred of Chicago's civic and business leaders will name the conditions which this boy must fulfill in order to qualify as the best citizen in 1950. Although these men know quite well that they can not prophecy correctly, they can decide what is the present ideal of citizenship, and by pinning these ideals on some young Chicagoan, give them a humman interest and a currency which they would not have otherwise. In confining the contest to boys between fourteen and eighteen years the Federation runs the risk, of course, of selecting one who will prove a hopeless failure, since...
...much has been said of the harmful effects of the city on children that it will be good to hear from the other side. Farm life is no longer held superior to city life as a healthful environment, and it may well be that the virtues of citizenship can flourish as vigorously under the elevated tracks as around the little red schoolhouse. If the Chicago experiment succeeds in defining good citizenship and in demonstrating that such high ideals are fostered by urban life, it will have done a most commendable service...