Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taking interest in the problems which confront the nation. Indifference towards national affairs is indifference towards the welfare of the country, in the government of which they all will have a part. Those who are enjoying the advantages of a college training should fully appreciate that the duties of citizenship are not to be entered upon lightly...
...Immigration Bill (TIME, April 28) is no longer the Immigration Bill; it is the Immigration Act of 1924. President Coolidge signed it in spite of a provision which excludes from the country, after July. 1, all aliens ineligible for citizenship (aimed at the Japanese). He signed - but he issued his remarks on the subject: In signing this bill, which in its main features I heartily approve, I regret the impossibility of severing from it the exclusion provision, which in the light of existing law affects especially the Japanese. . . . We have had for many years an understanding with Japan by which...
...bill to restrict immigration which carries a provision excluding all immigrants not eligible to citizenship (that is, Japanese; other Orientals had been previously barred out) was approved by both House and Senate and sent to the President. The provision making the Japanese exclusion clause effective July 1 (which had been altered by the joint conference to March 1, 1925, at the request of the President) was restored at the demand of the House (TIME, May 19). Thus the bill was passed. Congress. Both houses wanted the Japanese exclusion section made effective almost immediately-regardless of the President's demand...
...disappointing revelations. The average physical condition of the men was poor, and the mental alertness and energy were scarcely better. The training camps provide a month of hard, healthy, intelligent work. They are active recognition of the fact that book learning is a small part of education; that gool citizenship and high morale depend upon both mental and physical good health. They may do much to maintain a high domestic morale in a country, constantly, if not inevitably, subject to more or less peaceful invasion from Southern Europe and Russia. -Yale Daily News...
...applicant should be established and certified in as strict a manner as for graduates of American medical schools. A few states-New York, Louisiana, Florida, Illinois and Indiana-now require applicants from abroad to be citizens of the United States, and other states are contemplating similar action. Certainly citizenship, or at least a declaration of intention, should be required. The public needs protection against the incompetent or undesirable physician from abroad no less than against the medical impostor at home...