Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which would hold miners' wages and standards of living to the lowest possible level. German Busch, the last President who tried to buck Hochschild & friends, slapped him in jail, would have shot him except for powerful intervention reportedly by the U.S. and Argentina. (Hochschild has a convenient Argentine citizenship.) Soon afterward, Busch died (official explanation: suicide...
...Some famous Holmes dissents: Coppage v. Kansas (1915), which gave employers the right to require nonunion pledges as a condition of employment; United States v. Schwimmer (1929), which denied citizenship to Rozika Schwimmer because she testified at her citizenship hearing that she would not bear arms in case...
...native continent. At last February's trail-blazing French Empire conference in Brazzaville, he had served as honorary chairman, helped promote a policy of "Africa for the Africans." Now, within the French Empire, the Governor General said optimistically, his people stood on the threshold of full citizenship, even of social and economic equality with whites...
...years, Victor Kravchenko was a loyal Russian minor official. He rose to be a voyentechnik (technician) with rank of captain in the Red Army. Suddenly in Manhattan last week he threw over his job-and his Russian citizenship-and placed himself "under the protection of American opinion." He gave his reasons in a letter that sharply rearoused half-forgotten U.S. suspicions of the Soviet...
...District Court, Naturalization Division, as Raymond Massey raised his right hand. The Canadian-born actor later explained: "My home is here. My future is here. This country has been good to me, and I am proud and happy to assume the obligations as well as the privileges of citizenship...