Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court ball seven months ago. In 1903 Ruth Bryan married a U. S. artist named William Homer Leavitt, bore him two children before divorcing him in 1909. Next year her marriage to Major Reginald Altham Owen of Britain's Royal Engineers automatically cost her her U. S. citizenship. When she tried to regain it in 1921, after she and her ailing husband had settled in Florida, she found that she would have to be naturalized like any other foreigner. Feminists used her plight as a prime argument in securing passage of the Cable Act of 1922. which provided that...
...purpose all four organizations are similar. Rotary's original motto was "Service before Self." To this was later added: "He profits most who serves best." Kiwanians say: "We build." Lions hold to "Liberty: Intelligence: The Nation's Safety." Civitans are "builders of good citizenship." Individual clubs admit one member of each profession or business classification in the community, except Kiwanis, which admits two. Civitans restrict membership to "white Caucasians," will take as many ministers as apply...
...miraculously returned alive to London. He had enlisted in 1914 as a British machine gunner and had gone to Belgium with England's first army. The Germans called this army "The Contemptibles," and practically annihilated it. Hall was an American Grinnell College Ph. D. to, but luck, not his citizenship or college, had kept him from dying in Flanders...
...Foot" went on: "Is it too much to believe that the human intellect is equal to the problem of designing a world State in which neighbors can live without molestation? . . . Man has become willingly or unwillingly a citizen of the world, and the duties of that citizenship cannot be evaded. It is on you, the young and rising generation of the future, that our civilization depends...
...Washington Sportsman Winston Frederick Churchill Guest asked the District of Columbia Supreme Court to order the Bureau of Immigration to grant him a "derivative citizenship." In his petition the ranking U. S. poloist stated that, although he was born in England in 1906, his mother, Amy Phipps of Pittsburgh, never swore allegiance to the British Crown, separated from her British husband in 1919 and returned to the U. S. Having voted, sworn allegiance to the U. S. when he joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Yale, run for the New York State Senate in 1934, Poloist Guest was dismayed...