Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's regular press conference, granted credentials. He was light-skinned Harry McAlpin of the Atlanta Daily World (circ. 23,000) and the Negro Newspaper Publishers' Association. Previously, President Roosevelt had received 13 Negro newspaper publishers, heard their plea for an end to "second-class citizenship" and their 21-point statement of war and postwar aspirations...
...main argument was that if we are to have a responsible citizenship, capable of serving the ends of democracy, it must be prepared for those tasks by education and training. And I wondered whether the evil of that kind of politicians whose attitude toward good government so frequently in negative, might not be reduced by more attention to the training of men for statesmanship. I suggested the commonplace which anyone who knows any thing at all ought to know, that in this particular, England has gone farther than we. But I said nothing about "selection," and the whole burden...
...asked to speak on the general question, "Should Youth Enter Politics?" I thought youth should enter politics because in youth's hands rests the future, and because interest in political questions was the best training for responsible citizenship without which democracy can never survive. I mentioned too that this fact was at the bottom of maintaining the peace, since world peace was as much a question of men as of systems. From those premises my argument proceeded. Lawrence Fernsworth, Nieman Fellow...
When asked whether he believed in the necessity of a National Service Act, and whether he thought there would be one, Professor Sumner H. Schlicter, of the Economics Department, said "No. The government should have authority to call strikes back to work, as an obligation of citizenship, but it should not have the broad powers of shifting men from one job to another...
...near an open window to let the bulk of the syncopation blast into the street. This also served as ballyhoo. The boys got some of their customers by going to Ellis Island and approaching immigrants just off the boats. The sales talk: one of the first requisites of U.S. citizenship was a $5 course of dancing lessons...