Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the secret Government session at which this decision was taken Count Coreth, the official rapporteur, announced with apostolic zeal: "The Austrian people could no longer endure the injury done the Habsburgs in 1919 when they were deprived of their citizenship and property. Dollfuss, from his place in Heaven, will surely be glad to know that the Austrian Government is canceling this unjust...
...lady from Tiffin, Ohio and 299 other feminists from 30 countries appeared triumphant last week in the Royal Yildiz Harem of Abdul Hamid "The Damned" (deposed 1909, died 1918). "As President of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship." crisply observed Britain's Margery Corbett Ashby, "I think we can all feel that 1934 was a notable year. In 1934 the women of Brazil and the women of Turkey were accorded the vote and equal status with...
...people of the U. S. formally abolished slavery. On July 28, 1868 they granted citizenship to all natives and naturalized persons, guaranteed due process of law for every citizen, disqualified for Federal office Confederate leaders who had broken their oath to support the Constitution. On March 30, 1870 they clinched the franchise for Negroes. These acts were the proclamations of Johnson's Secretary of State William Henry Seward and Grant's Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, three-fourths of the States having notified the Secretary in each instance that they had ratified the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments...
This announcement came after the U. S. Supreme Court had once more taken official cognizance of the fact that in the South the Negro does not get all the rights of citizenship the 14th Amendment of the Constitution was intended to give him. In reviewing the death sentence passed on Negro Clarence Norris, one of Alabama's nine "Scottsboro boys," the Supreme Court for the second time reversed the State court's conviction on the ground that Negroes had been "systematically excluded" from the jury roll. Alabamans and the Press of the entire South took that decision with...
...know- 'business as usual.' Never did this country need that slogan more than it does today. Box the compass of your own industry. Plan your future requirements. Cut your cloth according to your pattern, as the motor industry has done. . . . Don't dodge the duties of citizenship by blaming government interference for the lack of business initiative...