Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forth to war, a ballot in her hand and that which has been reckoned as a political impossibility-a solid woman vote-is threatening in the Spring primaries as well as in the Fall elections. . . . They are aroused over what they regard as a patriotic issue, a challenge to citizenship, an attack on every moral fibre of the nation. The grandmother with a purpose can be more formidable than the political leader or the officeholder-and these women have a purpose...
This meeting is being organized by the Student Citizenship Association which recently held a conference in Boston. The Washington Assembly, however, will be wider in scope, and the discussion will be confined to the extent of the violation of the Volstead Act and the methods of stimulating in colleges a distinct sentiment against such lawlessness...
...quota based on the 1890 census (the present quotas are 3% on the 1910 census) have aroused many foreign groups and nations to protest. But last week's fight centred principally on the provision for absolute exclusion of all aliens ineligible for citizenship, meaning especially Japanese. Secretary of State Hughes had previously opposed that provision on the ground that it would offend Japan. The total exclusion provision would break the commercial treaty of 1911 which allowed Japan to send immigrants, but was accompanied by a "gentleman's agreement" that the Japanese Government would not issue passports...
...have worked with or under him, all who have seen his work, all who have heard of his achievements and there are few who have not long ago realized the value of his work to the causes of scholarship, education, intellectual independence and intelligent citizenship. They have selected this occasion to express together that realization...
...official proclamation President Coolidge restored citizenship to men who deserted from the Army and Navy between the Armistice and the conclusion of our treaty of peace with Germany. The proclamation did not commute any court martial sentences, nor restore citizenship to those who deserted prior to the Armistice...