Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at a conference in London of the Council for World Citizenship attended by 2,000 teen-age students, Barbara Simonds made a speech. Its theme: "Learn to hate." Said...
Born. To Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 51, World War I draft dodger, now at liberty after serving almost five years of a seven and a half year sentence in Army prisons, and Berta Frank Bergdoll, 37, applicant for U.S. citizenship: their seventh child, a son; one week after the death of Bergdol's 83-year-old mother, Emma Bergdoll; in West Chester...
Rome established the primacy of law, created a thriving economy, spread the advantages of universal citizenship from Gibraltar to the Crimea, and made the family the rock of civil life. Yet the law was overthrown by barbarians, the international Roman economy succumbed to a renewed provincialism, and the old Stoic families took to licentiousness and ceased to reproduce themselves...
...present time, because elections are held on a weekday, nearly 5O% of the voting population do not exercise this valuable franchise of citizenship...
...Each of Editor Logan's contributors answers the title-question promptly, briefly, and in the same way, then passes on to what really interests him: how the Negro is to get what he wants. All 14 want "complete equality in the body politic," "full social equality," "first-class citizenship," "the same racial equality at the ballot box that we have at the income-tax window." But on the "how" of getting these things, Editor Logan's 14 writers split basically into two camps, choosing roughly between the methods of two famous Negro leaders: conservative, cautious, compromising Booker...