Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stewed in joint conference before going back to both Houses for final approval. The provision for restricting annual immigration to 2% of the number of aliens of each nationality resident in this country in 1890 was fairly satisfactory to all parties. The provision for excluding all aliens ineligible to citizenship (i.e., Japanese; other Orientals had been previously barred out), was the bone of contention...
...Camp Devens, Massachusetts, and at Fort Adams, Rhode Island. The object of these camps is to bring together men of high type from all sections of the country on a common basis of equality and under the most favorable conditions of outdoor life; to stimulate and promote citizenship, patriotism, and Americanism; and, through expert physical direction, athletic coaching, and military training, to benefit the men individually, and bring them to a greater realization of their obligations to their country...
According to ex-President Theodore Roosevelt '80. "The fundamental evil of this country is the lack of sufficiently general appreciation of the responsibility of citizenship. Nothing would do more to remedy this evil than the kind of training in citizenship, in patriotism, and in efficiency, which would come as a result of universal service on the Swiss or Australian models, or rather on a combination of the two adapted to our needs. Between the ages of 18 and 21 there should be a month of actual and continuous service in the field with the colors. Such universal training would give...
...GOOSE HANGS HIGH?The younger generation tolerantly restored to citizenship...
Said Commissioner Haynes: "I ask your help . . . in a great campaign of preaching . . . a program of promptly assuming the responsibilities of citizenship . . . meeting nullification propaganda. . . . If mobilized . . . into great forces interested in law enforcement and law observance, nothing can withstand...