Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beer and diversion of industrial alcohol; part for intensive, nation-wide education campaign, employing best talent to prepare accurate, striking posters and circulars emphasizing danger to individuals and to society of use of intoxicants, also the physical, economic, personal and social benefits of abstinence and prohibition, appealing to patriotic citizenship to abandon and discourage self-indulgent, demoralizing lawlessness...
Lady Heath, 31, last week in Manhattan, applied for her first U. S. citizenship papers. What Sir James would say about that...
...railroading methods, picked Superintendent Thornton for the job. Then came the War and with it new responsibilities, new titles for Mr. Thornton. He was Deputy Director of Waterways and Docks, Assistant Director General of Movements and Railways, Inspector General of Transportation. In 1916 he gave up his U. S. citizenship, became a British subject; in 1919 was made Sir Henry Thornton, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 1922 he came to Canada; took over direction of the woebegone Canadian National; moved politics out and efficiency...
...respectable Frenchman may obtain such a license by applying to the police, but loses his citizenship for the period that the license is valid...
...They are selected by rigorous test as fit persons to receive an education. To pass those tests implies intelligence. It also implies a belief on the part of college authorities that persons admitted to undergraduate status will appreciate their privileges and opportunities and utilize them in training themselves for citizenship...