Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administrative Committee reported on its plans for a great national conference on the Christian way of life. Said Dr. John M. Moore of Brooklyn: "The idea has crossed the sea" (reference to England's conference at Birmingham last spring on Christian Politics, Economics and Citizenship known as Capec...
Said the guest of honor: "There are many anniversaries which mark our journey through life. At 21 years of age we are welcomed to manhood and citizenship; at 60 and 70 we do not like to have the dates well-known because we wish to be considered younger; at 80 we begin to brag about our age; and when we enter upon the last lap or the century at 90, then the world rejoices and helps us along...
Joseph Caillaux (TIME, June 2), however, was still serving his sentence and had not been to Paris since 1920 until special permission was given him to attend Anatole France's funeral, a month ago. He is thus restored to full citizenship and can now function actively in politics...
...Jones to be a Negro. Said Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlets: "BLUEBLOOD WEDS COLORED GIRL," "SOCIETY STUNNED," "COLOR LINE FOR KIP'S BRIDE." Later the more sober dailies investigated, definitely established that Mr. Jones, a onetime British subject, had described himself as "colored" in applying for U.S. citizenship...
...grounds of history and the law of probabilities is, however, not quite convincing. While there is perhaps not one chance in ten thousand that any of the supporters of the various student political clubs will achieve the office of President, all of them will assume the duties of citizenship. To know something of the nature and method of political organization is doubtless of value to the voter, even if acquired in a mock manner. It is to the political genious alone, as Roosevelt's career seems to testify, that participation or non-participation in student activities is a matter...