Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...streams of population that have been and are pouring in upon us are age old in racial character and capacity. We are the melting pot. Into it has been poured, almost promiscuously, every dross ingredient of citizenship that the earth produces, the good...
...Pennsylvania hopes to win a national following among "the church people"* by posing as the very angel of Drought. As such he can safely aim a few shafts of criticism at an ordinary prohibitionist such as Mr. Coolidge. There is already a record of his marksmanship: 1) At the Citizenship Conference of the Council of Churches (TIME, Oct. 22) he declared with thinly veiled criticism that the President ought to take direct control of prohibition enforcement. 2) At the Conference of Governors he was a leading member of the group which "put over" the prohibition memorial. There is small doubt...
What apparently is lacking today is common sense. The Eighteenth Amendment has raised an even more futile turmoil than that of the national house cleaning after the Civil War. At the Washington Citizenship Conference recently Governor Pinchot found that most of the trouble lay in the capital, the center of "political ham-stringing of the Federal Enforcement Service." Bryan demanded that the President and the Cabinet should publicly declare themselves teetotalers. Senator Borah thundered his denunciation of wealthy "whites" who defy the law. And on the other said Congressman Hill of Maryland has declared insolently that "if the Drys throw...
...Washington, under the auspices of the Federal Council of Churches, was held a " Citizenship Conference." Its roster of speakers included Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, William J. Bryan, Senator William E. Borah. They found a common topic in prohibition...
...Good Citizenship--the Basis of Just Government...