Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seaman. Australian Harry Bridges, C.I.O.'s wiry West Coast maritime boss, entered the U. S. legally in 1920, twice applied for first citizenship papers, twice allowed his application to lapse. For Harry Bridges, this was a serious mistake. By the time he made a third application in 1936-two years after San Francisco's bloody General Strike-Secretary Perkins was besieged with requests to deport Australian Bridges as an undesirable alien. This year the hue has been raised still louder by Congressman Martin Dies's Committee on UnAmerican Activities, whose chairman claims that Bridges is a Communist...
...cobbler on Los Angeles' Hollywood Boulevard, this chronicle last year seemed very remote. But someone called the attention of the Bureau of Immigration to the fact that Nicholas Bogomoletz did not divorce his Russian wife until 1929, year that he and Anna were given their U. S. citizenship. The bureau started proceedings (aided by affidavits of long-memoried U. S. Army officers who were still bitter over the incident at Posolskaya). Result: Bogomoletz' and Anna's citizenship was revoked, and he was arrested for deportation on a charge of moral turpitude...
...John Citizen." Pierce Atwater, executive secretary of St. Paul's Community Chest, declared: "We have allowed our system of public welfare administration to grow far too detached from the body of the citizenship who pay the bills and who drop their verdict into the ballot box." He urged that "the John Citizens of America" be put on relief boards, to leaven professional social workers and politicians...
...year he graduated from high school with the top scholastic prize (a $200 scholarship for "citizenship"), he climaxed a series of local golfing honors by beating a Kansas City millionaire in the final of the Trans-Mississippi championship. Then the Omaha Kid became the hero of Omaha. There were banquets and parades and, by popular subscription, a fund of $1,565 was raised to send him to the University of Nebraska. Two years later he won the Nebraska State championship, went on to Pebble Beach and national fame...
Says Sullivan: "From all the passions which give direction to most men's lives, sexual love, paternity, friendship, citizenship, religious aspirations, the desire for fame, the desire to benefit humanity, Newton seems to have been free. From the point of view of most men his life, in spite of its prodigious achievements, would seem pointless. . . . His life was one long meditation, but his interest in the subject of his meditations was exhausted in the act of understanding...