Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Momita received his American citizenship under the McCarran-Walter Act. His drugstore became the social center of the area, and Helen used to open it at 8 o'clock every morning so that everyone could gather for coffee. Last year Harry served as president of the Calipatria Chamber of Commerce...
Shibley Jean Talamas, 29, who was born in Haiti to wealthy, Syrian-descended parents with U.S. citizenship, was a bear-size (6 ft. 6 in., more than 300 Ibs.) playboy who enacted a majestic Bacchus at carnival time, managed a leading soccer team and manufactured textiles. He had been educated at Virginia's Hargrave Military Academy and the University of Texas, and was married to an Ashtabula, Ohio girl. In 24 hours last week, U.S. Citizen Talamas ran into a terrible coincidence that cost him his life and Haiti much U.S. good will...
...master-slave relationship. At Clemson College, at Harvard, where he studied the Reconstruction as a Nieman Fellow in 1941, and as an editor on the Charlotte News in North Carolina, Newsman Ashmore reached the firm conclusion that by continued failure to meet "the basic commitments of citizenship" in its worsening relations with the Negro, the white South could only invite what Ashmore regards as the equal evil of enforced integration. He has pushed that premise in two books, The Negro and the Schools (1954) and his upcoming An Epitaph for Dixie, and in Democratic party politics, which he entered...
Negroes denied the rights of citizenship should be exempt from taxes and compulsory military service...
Recent Travel: In 1954 they fled to Mexico City, later quietly liquidated null of assets in the U.S., last month threw in their U.S. citizenship and got easy-come, easy-go Paraguayan passports, made plans to move to safety behind the Iron Curtain. Mexico was getting ready, they thought, correctly, to extradite them to the U.S. to face grand-jury questioning about their espionage activities...