Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Gouzenko was in fact a Canadian. The Department of the Secretary of State had issued him a citizenship certificate. It described him briefly: 5 ft. 8 in., blue-grey eyes, fair hair. His occupation was left blank, his address was simply c/o R.C.M.P...
Most of the passengers of the first five boatloads to arrive in the U.S. have been given visas, and many have taken out their first citizenship papers. Others have been paroled to the Salvation Army. So far, none have been returned to Russia, and, though immigration officials are reluctant to say so, none are likely...
...half blind at 74, he handed to a friend the small blue booklet in which His Britannic Majesty commended his subject, Chaim Weizmann, to the world: the passport would be returned to Britain's Home Secretary. In a DC-4, Weizmann flew to Israel to assume the citizenship (and the presidency) of the Jewish state which he, more than any one man, had helped make a reality. Said he as he landed: "It is good to be home at last...
...Commission. The student who votes in Massachusetts pays no state income or property tax and is under no financial obligation to the state other than a minimal $2 poll tax. Upon graduation, a simple declaration of intention to reside elsewhere will be sufficient to give up Massachusetts citizenship...
...rare indeed that a movie can move in on the American frontier without million-dollar razzle-dazzle, chunks of pseudohistory, and an unctuous salute to those who secured our Way of Life. Rachel is content to examine a small domestic situation of no conceivable importance to citizenship classes, and to suggest the hard, lonesome beauty of the frontier and the way life was lived there. In other words, it is a better piece of history than most. There is pleasant work by Miss Young and Mr. Mitchum, and a skillful, comic, notably engaging performance by William Holden...