Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoped to be of service. Leadership comes to those who serve. He began his career as a corporation lawyer in Ohio. In 1914 he was made a Federal Judge in that State. One of his innovations while holding that post was a method of Americanizing aliens. When he granted citizenship he held a reception, with music, speeches, refreshments. He made the newly-fledged, exalted citizens feel important. After only two years he was elevated to the Supreme Court, where his rugged personality lent a certain tonic atmosphere. He was impatient of refinement of argument, preferring by nature a certain blunt...
...make good material for newspaper publicity. There are few better examples of the kind of stories which the law produces than this, an account of an incident which culminated last week at Ellis Island: A man of German birth, resident of the U. S. and possessor of his first citizenship papers, decided to import his wife and five children from Germany. They came. The five offspring were admitted as Germans. The mother was denied entrance because she had been born aboard a Dutch ship in the port of Antwerp, and the Dutch quota for 1923-1924 was exhausted. Perforce...
Last week the International Olympic rules committee denied the application and Mrs. Mallory can lend to the American team only her sideline support. Although she declared her willingness to play for Norway, the Norwegian consulate in Manhattan declared that she had lost her citizenship by marrying Franklin I. Mallory, an American. Only citizens can represent their country in the Olympics...
...must be enforced and obeyed" was the keynote of the Student Section of the New England Citizenship Conference. Ninety-two delegates of 19 colleges heard the speeches of the three meetings during the past weekend and then adopted a set of active resolutions against student drinking...
...either side knows any relevant facts or not; one is forced to think, and think fast if one means to impress a critical--often hypercritical audience. This is more particularly true when there is vigorous opposition, so the maximum benefit on this score may not be obtained at the Citizenship Conference, when everyone will probably represent the same point of view...