Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senatorial courtesy," which prevented the confirmation of Negro appointees to office, the failure of the Liberian Loan, the failure of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, were condemned. Final resolutions called for the enforcement of the 14th (Negro citizenship) and 15th (Negro suffrage) Amendments to the Constitution, passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, more Negro officeholders in the South, Negro management of Tuskegee National Hospital...
...following points: World Court, the twelve-hour day in industry, religious as well as secular education, prohibition, prohibition of poppy growing. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and the International Harvester Company were commended for their enlightened policy toward labor. At Winona Lake, Ind., assembled a Christian Citizenship Conference. There were present over 5,000 delegates from the United States and 30 foreign countries. This conference is sponsored by the National Reform Association, an organization of business and professional men without any particular religious affiliation. Three United States Senators, seven governors, two bishops, and many college presidents took part...
...Department of Justice) were those of 48 radicals convicted under wartime laws. The President commuted the sentences of 27 of these men, in 25 cases conditioned by good behavior, in two cases (of foreigners) conditioned by deportation. The President's action gives these men freedom but not citizenship...
...only, whereas the other 21 had been convicted of criminal deeds. The Committee on Free Speech of the National Civic Federation and the American Civil Liberties Union also protested because the men released had not been pardoned unconditionally, but only on condition of good behavior and without restoration of citizenship. The war law prisoners had previously declared their intention of not accepting release unless it was given unconditionally...
Guinta: "What would deputy Bombacci say if I went to Moscow and published a Fascist newspaper there"? Would I have any rights of citizenship? Would the law protect...