Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short of paying its upkeep. Other rich men formed partnerships with their wives and children thus splitting their income several ways so as to escape high surtaxes. A retired Army officer who has a large income from securities which he hopes to sell at big profit, took out Canadian citizenship papers and transferred his securities to four corporations in the Bahamas in order to escape the income and capital gains tax. Some of such schemes were illegal, some might be technically legal. All were immoral. Franklin Roosevelt was going to bring them to the attention of Congress...
...Kankakee, Ill., Circuit Judge W. R. Hunter asked six applicants for citizenship if they approved the Sit-Down. Luckily, all said "No," for the Judge announced that he would have denied their applications if they had commended that "form of anarchy...
...reporters got him to the point of discussing Hitler or his own status as an exile, he was checked by shrewd, matter-of-fact, English-speaking Frau Mann, who hovered near, adroitly answered for him. In voluntary exile in Zurich since Hitler came to power, officially deprived of German citizenship last December, his property confiscated and books burned, Dr. Mann nevertheless held his tongue, waited until the right moment to strike back...
...Accuse. Like most such spontaneous expressions of intellectual integrity, An Exchange of Letters was called into being by a relatively small occasion. Last December Dr. Mann received a curt note from the Frederick-William University, of Bonn, stating that since "Herr Thomas Mann, writer," had lost his citizenship, the University was obliged to withdraw its honorary degree. Author Mann's reply to this last straw was first published in the Nation, was reprinted by his U. S. publisher to coincide with his arrival in the U. S.* Even Nazis might be impressed by the dignity with which Author Mann...
...Philippines he took along his sister to be his hostess, his newlywed brother-in-law because his sister insisted on it. As soon as Mr. Murphy gave up his Manila post, Mr. Teahan left Mr. Murphy's payroll. About to take out his final U. S. citizenship papers, he currently works...