Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas, where Governess Ferguson sits in the executive office or allows her spouse (the onetime Governor, who was a few years ago impeached and removed from office) to sit in her place, a movement was undertaken to restore to the gubernatorial spouse "full citizenship rights...
...expression "equal rights" is the crux of the Amendment. It means not only equal rights in matters of citizenship and property, in guardianship of children and holding office, but it also means that women shall have the right to work equally with men, unhampered by restrictions. In short, minimum hour, minimum wage and similar laws, if they apply only to women, would be wiped off the statute books...
...decree of our Supreme Court we women have been recognized and admitted into all the rights and privileges of citizenship.** Many women will be invited to take an active part in this Administration. Let us give to Texas the best there is in us. Let us render full service, not so much because we are women, but because we are citizens, who are now equal to stand side by side with men for equal rights and equal justice...
...when the boy gets in, he receives something entirely different from what is known as a university education in Europe. He gets, not so much an insight into ways of thinking and methods of reasoning, not so much a background of culture, as a training in 'leadership,' 'citizenship' and 'character.' This may be a desirable thing at the present point of development of the United States, but it is something quite distinct from the European conception of a university...
...Porto Rican elections held Nov. 4, 1924, are the greatest outrage upon American citizenship ever committed...