Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...page dossier, said Pearl River District Attorney Vernon Broom last week, was mostly "hearsay." The grand jury did not even get to see the FBI findings. Leaving the case "unsolved," the grand jury thanked Judge Dale for his "inspired charge," declared that "from the standpoint of citizenship and law enforcement, our county compares favorably with any in the world...
Most U.S. immigrants want to keep their U.S. citizenship. Under immigration policy, Canada does not really mind, but hopes for a change of heart. Statistics show a small (1,356 last year) but growing percentage of Americans taking out Canadian citizenship...
...There is nobody we would rather have. The Americans fit right in." So says Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Ellen Fairclough, and this week her department is backing its sentiments with action. Two Canadian information offices are opening in Los Angeles and Minneapolis to supplement existing offices in New York and Chicago. Their purpose: to offer all help "short of money" to desirable U.S. citizens interested in moving to Canada on a permanent basis...
...requirement of the oath in the NDEA seems to us to present completely different problems. Allegiance is a necessary accompaniment of citizenship. The usual form for the expression of such allegiance is by oath. The oath in the NDEA is such an oath in its traditional form. To require such an oath is the right of the government. We believe, however, that it is useless and invidious to require it on this occasion, useless because disloyalty is not eliminated by formalities, and invidious since it selects the beneficiaries of government assistance in one area and not in others. We therefore...
Equating obedience to TV commercials with good citizenship may not be the sponsor's conscious goal, but the effect, insisted Hayakawa, is the same. "Hair tonic manufacturers aren't actually trying to agitate the Negroes. Henry Ford was not trying to change the courting habits of the U.S., either...