Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem could be more easily solved. This plan would demand no dark and foreboding compulsory course to be staggered through but merely a general knowledge of a subject which every American citizen cannot know too well. We would thus be taking another step forward in the promotion of better citizenship. J. B. Squies...
...Johnson. Just at present he seems about to stir up as much trouble for the Administration as the other Californian -but in quite a different way. Senator Shortridge is going to introduce into Congress an amendment to the immigration law which would bar all persons not eligible for citizenship from entering this country, meaning to bar Asiatics, and intended to bar Japanese...
This move, coming at a time when the Supreme Court has just upheld the Washington and California laws (TIME, Nov. 19) prohibiting persons not eligible for citizenship from owning or leasing land, is bound to be irritating to the Japanese Government. It is understood that the Japanese Government is about to make overtures for a treaty that would nullify these laws. To add a complete bar to Japanese desiring to enter the country is bound to produce vigorous protest from Japan...
...alleged alumnus whose name does not appear in the Alumni Directory. This letter, quite apart from the apparent hoax of its authorship, would not have been given space in any reputable publication edited by full-grown men, for its contents were insulting to a considerable element in our citizenship...
...whatever ought to a welcomed in, the soundness of this argument is apparent. But the immigration law of 1920-1921, which attempted to put this into effect, generalized too far. In the first place, there are certainly individuals from southern Europe who are morally, mentally and physically fitted for citizenship, just as there are certainly individuals from northern Europe who are not so fitted. To discriminate against immigrants en mass by national quota is both unjust and unreasonable. And in the second place, by giving the Secretary of Labor wide personal latitude in executing the law, there is a strong...