Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last April Federal authorities turned him up for another piece of business. As confidential clerk to the Collector of the Port of New York, they charged, he had taken $100 apiece from three Italians who had entered the U. S. illegally, needed some political fixing to get their first citizenship papers...
...Citizenship, Blood & Honor. The second decree read out by General Göring is the National Citizenship Law. This divides Germans into "citizens"' (with such rights as suffrage) and "members" (rights not defined). Jews under this law are automatically "members,'' and German "citizens" will be degraded to that status if they are found to be Communists or otherwise "unworthy...
...know coolie labor was imported to work on that railroad and they were almost the first Chinamen that came to America. Having invited them Congress passed a law granting them limited citizenship...
...head of the Junior class, was Senior chairman of the school assembly, was business manager of the dramatic club, and was a member of the basketball team. He was first in his district in the national Latin contest of the American Classical League, was third in Illinois in a citizenship essay contest, won first place in a competitive county scholarship examination, won the local high school medal awarded annually by the National Honorary Classics Fraternity, and had high marks in various state and national scholarship tests...
...clearer understanding of economic problems gained from personal contact with a few of those who are on the edge of economic ruin; in a realization of some of the dangers and limitations of urban life for the under-priviledged; in a lasting impression of some problems of citizenship...