Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leading boys' clubs and naturalization work were received with great enthusiasm last year. For those who have a real interest in training poor children of the slums for American citizenship, this year's program should provide ample opportunity, Ware stated...
Dean Johnston's suggestions for ending this educational prodigality: Let high schools divide their labor, some preparing students for college, others for work and citizenship. Let the last two years of high school be combined with the first two of college and award B.A.s at that point. Let only select students go on to real university scholarship. Let Minnesota establish a sliding scale of fees: no charge for honors students; $80 a year for those who pass; $200 for the slow, $400 for determined dullards...
...naturally, for despite the publicity value of attacks made on him, Harry Bridges has had to endure what is pretty close to persecution. Innumerable attempts have been made to have him deported, although his immigration status cannot be challenged. Like many another resident alien, he filed first papers for citizenship, then let them lapse. As soon as the waiting period is up on his third set of first papers he may apply for citizenship. Government authorities have dutifully checked charges of false identity, of subversive activities, of a criminal record in Australia-and have given Harry Bridges a clean bill...
Nunzio Cancillo, a Sicilian who has operated a fruit and vegetable market in Greencastle, Ind. for 45 of his 65 years, was examined last week on his application for U. S. citizenship. He looked worried when he was asked "Who makes the laws in the U. S.?" Suddenly smiling, he replied, "Mr. Roosevelt." He passed...
...anti-Semitic thunder rang out in Italy last week. Writing in II Duce's Milan newspaper Popolo d'ltalia Editorial Writer Oreste Gregorio declared: ''[Jews in Italy] must either publicly declare themselves enemies-we mean enemies-of all anti-Fascist Hebrewism ... or renounce their Italian citizenship and residence. . . . They' must abandon any participation in the Zionist movement for a national Jewish home in Palestine ... which would tend to create in the Mediterranean another zone of expansion under British political and economic control, definitely contrary to the Italian Mediterranean spirit...