Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the cobalt-blue ceiling and fantastic chandeliers of the Department of Labor Auditorium, the bustle and fidget of over 2,000 young people settled to a whisper. The members of the American Youth Congress, assembled in Washington for a four-day citizenship institute, "a monster lobby for jobs, peace, civil liberties, education and health," came to order. A. Y. C.'s adopted mother, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, sat placidly in the second...
...last speech, Adolf Hitler described the present war as a social conflict between predatory, hypocritical plutocracies and great, proletarian States like Germany. Last week the Nazi hierarchy was busily ding-donging the theorem that the Third Reich is fighting the classes for the masses, canceled Herr Thyssen's citizenship...
...many able students whose family resources are meager. Those who stand to benefit by advanced training should be sorted out from every economics class, say the three theorists. The remaining young people, rich and poor alike, ought to be provided with a broad training to fit them for citizenship in a democracy, but should not waste their time in protracted studies. In other words, there ought to be a minimum schooling for all, but extended education only for those who have the mental, even if not the financial preparation...
WASHINGTON -- More than 3,000 delegates to the Citizenship Institute, of the American Youth Congress cheered vigorously today when the AYC's executive secretary, Miss Francis Williams, defended refusal of the Congress to expell Communist organizations...
...American Youth Congress's Citizenship Institute in Washington, February 9th-11th, will give us a chance to make our influence felt upon our government, will give us a chance to present our proposals to the nation's leaders. Delegates will visit their congressmen and senators, demonstrate in a parade to the White House, express their views on current legislation and current problems in general discussions on problems of jobs, peace and civil liberties. They will make their demands upon their representatives in Washington. At the same time they will hear such prominent figures as the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, Attorney...