Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts are that the Democracy of Kentucky had been aroused to unusual electoral consciousness by a bitter intraparty primary, and that the election, to an unusual degree in this election-ridden State, was an ever-present subject in the minds of our citizenship generally and particularly in the Democratic portion. . . . There came into Kentucky Democratic Senators Barkley and Logan, the scholarly orator. ex-Governor and ex-Senator Stanley, Mrs. Ross, a woman ex-Governor from the West, several of Kentucky's Democratic Congressional delegation and others, who. with our local orators, upon every slump proclaimed the glory...
...support that succeeded, and still in part succeeds, in ending the labor of children in mills and factories. . . . You and I will not forget the long struggle to put an end to the indiscriminate distribution of 'fly-by-night' securities. . . . Third-Class Diet. "The average of our citizenship lives today on what would be called by the medical fraternity a third-class diet. If the country lived on a second-class diet, we would need to put many more acres than we use today back into the production of foodstuffs for domestic consumption. If the nation lived...
Politically the new decrees place Jews & Jewesses in the same category, lumping them with German criminals and imbeciles beyond the pale of citizenship, franchise and eligibility for State office. Complicated fractional categories for fixing the exact status of part-Jews as to political rights and marriage make the decrees a maze but a great pair of scissors is provided to cut all Gordian knots. Realmleader Adolf Hitler has overruling power in all respects. As a one-man Jew's Supreme Court he can dispense such exceptional favors as permitting Soviet Ambassador Suritz to keep an apple-cheeked, 16-year...
...aside Secretary Clements lifted the Townsend Plan once more to its original lofty plane: "I see a man and woman both past three score and ten, sitting in a humble home out in the Far West. Depression has exacted its cruel toll from them after a life ot good citizenship and pioneering in the Their chief asset now and only compensation is that they have contributed to their country four children raised to manhood and womanhood. Thank God it is my privilege to save those two-my own Mother and Father, and devote myself to the saving of all other...
...passed last June. As passed its schedule ranged from 1% to 15% which meant that any citizen with an income of $1,000,000 a year would have to pay the State $140,575. The law also presumed that six months residence within the State was tantamount to citizenship. By last week it was time for anyone who contemplated howling about this levy to get it off his chest. One who did so was Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose California properties include a 50,000-acre estate at Wyntoon, a 270,000-acre estate at San Simeon. According to FORTUNE...