Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dogma v. Citizenship. Nor would Dr. Blanshard let his fellow Quakers take refuge in tradition, the Inner Light, the Bible, or their own definition of good citizenship. His points...
...Discipline says: 'We urge Friends to be active in the performance of all the duties of good citizenship.' In a day when democratic nations are going down like ninepins, I doubt whether 'good citizenship' can reasonably be taken to lie in enjoying the benefits of democracy while refusing to defend it, and in using one's freedom to make the survival of freedom more difficult...
...Dogma v. Citizenship. Nor would Dr. Blanshard let his fellow Quakers take refuge in tradition, the Inner Light, the Bible, or their own definition of good citizenship. His points...
After and if he gets his final U.S citizenship papers, Cinemactress Gene Tierneys dress-designing husband Oleg Cassini wants to enlist. Everybody but Cassini was prepared for his citizenship last week in Los Angeles. Present as witnesses were his wife, also Cinemactress Cobina Wright Jr. and Mrs. Victor Mature. Cassini turned up without the necessary papers proving his past. Hearing postponed...
...politician-ridden Missouri, the public welfare is sacrificed to the personal greed of politicians. . . . Members of the Legislature and other public officials, almost with impunity, may accept bribes. . . . Why? Because a stolid citizenship, submitting unconcernedly to rule by grasping politicians, permits them virtually unhampered control of the primary elections...