Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arranged, the President could appoint them, with Congressional approval, or let Congress pick them from a list of Presidential recommendations. (Streit suggests Wendell Willkie, Herbert Hoover, James M. Cox, asks readers to suggest other names.) This Union would be empowered to handle foreign relations, establish a common currency, common citizenship, common communications in the Federal Union. All powers not specifically granted the Union would be retained by each state: the state could be socialist or capitalist, a republic like the U. S., a monarchy like Britain. But each would have to conform to a Bill of Rights, grant freedom...
...part of members of the University to make their meetings accessible to the public should be encourages, not discouraged, by the authorities; for the sense of community with, and responsibility for, people outside one's won educational or occupational group is nothing less than the spirit of good citizenship...
...high schools, with a limited number of courses. Only one out of every six goes to college. Examinations in set academic subjects, then, force the curriculum to adapt itself to the needs of the minority. The important teaching jobs of vocational guidance, education in social relations, and training for citizenship must necessarily suffer...
...natural world." To itself the Church delegates the responsibility for pointing the way towards a series of practical reforms--production for need rather than for profit, guarantees of security for the unemployed, free international trade, conservation of natural resources, the unification of Europe into a cooperative commonwealth, education in citizenship for the young, and a return to faith in God. For a just peace, they propose a settlement guaranteeing the real needs and just demands of nations, disarmament, and the "faithful execution of international agreements...
...refugee relief organizations is of pioneering colonies in the New World where refugees may live off the land, build themselves self-supporting communities. So far the only place this dream has come even close to reality is the Dominican Republic, whose boss, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, offers land and conditional citizenship to sponsored immigrants. There nine refugee settlements have been set up, eight for Spanish Republicans, one (mostly) for German Jews. But last week, looking the colonies over, reporters found the realities none too pleasant...