Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noncitizens serving in the armed forces may make application for citizenship after serving honorably for three months (or one month if stationed at a basic training center). This application must then be accompanied by the recommendation of the applicant's commanding officer, photographs, and any previous papers he might have. That file is forwarded to the Immigration and Naturalization Service in that district which makes an investigation to see whether the applicant has a record of a legal entry into the country. If such a record is not found, applicant cannot become naturalized; if found, applicant is notified...
...Advice? Oh, we give plenty of that," said Miss McCafferty with a smile. "One of our main duties is instructing Harvard employees about their insurance, their pensions, or other problems." The office also has charge of interviewing all applicants, checking on their citizenship, loyalty, character, and references. Wage setting and employees' labor problems are also a part of the department's work. Biggest headache of the office comes in checking on all government regulations...
...French-born Bedaux washed dishes, worked as a sand hog, finally evolved the Bedaux system of workmen's pay based on units of production. While organized labor screamed that the system was only the infamous "stretchout" and turned foremen into Simon Legrees, Bedaux made millions. He took out citizenship papers, found a new socialite wife in Michigan, hobnobbed with industrialists, finally became a pal of the Duke of Windsor, later openly admitted: "I am an out & out Fascist...
Cinemactor Freddie Bartholomew, 18year-old ex-child star, was sworn into the Army Air Forces in Los Angeles as a ground crewman. British-born, he took out his first U.S. citizenship papers last March, can automatically become a citizen after three months in the service. Last week, looking ahead, he figured the war "might be over in time for me to do some more acting...
...Reale dell' Opera in Rome. Soon his reputation was made. Arturo Toscanini gave him a contract at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. There the late impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed him for the Metropolitan. Last year, despite the fact that Basso Pinza had his first citizenship papers, the FBI got irritated at some patriotic Italian speeches he had made, interned him, but released him eleven weeks later...