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Word: citizenship (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...education for more people was only part of the problem. What kind of education should they get? "Too often," said the commission, "a man is 'educated' in that he has acquired competence in some particular occupation, yet falls short of that human wholeness and civic conscience which . . . citizenship requires. . . . The unity of liberal education has been splintered by overspecialization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who Should Go to College? | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...three-woman staff is suitably international : one is American; one is Hungarian by birth and Haitian by marriage; one is Swiss by birth, U.S. by citizenship, and married to an expatriate Russian. Mrs. Lea Cowles, the plump, attractive widow who directs the nursery school, was borrowed from the University of Alabama department of child development. Says she: "When some of the parents heard I was at Alabama, they thought I would turn out to be a race bigot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: International Kindergarten | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...were facing war, that he had a greater hold on the people of the democratic world than any other statesman of his time, and that it was too late to find a substitute; that I understood his wanting to retire to Hyde Park to enjoy the freedom of private citizenship, but that I did not think that was good enough in the dangerous days that lay ahead. He looked wan and tired, and it hurt me to say what I had to say. ..." Roosevelt never told him he was going to appoint him Ambassador. A few days later Winant read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambassador's Report | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Four Rights. The committee, its members reported, found "much that has shocked us, and much that has made us feel ashamed." The committee felt that everyone in the U.S. was entitled to the protection of four basic rights: to safety. and security of person, to citizenship and its privileges, to equality of opportunity, to freedom of conscience and expression. At present only freedom of conscience and expression, said the committee, is "relatively secure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Deeds v. Ideals | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...know. Most seemed ignorant of the fact that they were one small part of a mass movement -that Russia, which needs men for her farms & factories in Armenia, was bringing Armenians back by the thousands from poorer European countries and the Middle East. All 150 had renounced their U.S. citizenship and were sailing as Russian immigrants, but some had the mistaken idea that they could come back to the U.S. after a while if they didn't like the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMIGRANTS: The Long Voyage Home | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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