Word: citizenship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...statehood-which would give Puerto Ricans the vote in U.S. elections, but would subject them to the income tax. Munoz Marin sticks by his self-designed commonwealth status, under which Puerto Rico has substantial home rule along with tariff-free access to the U.S. mainland market, plus the common citizenship with the U.S. that lets the island's unemployed migrate freely. The majority of Puerto Ricans seem to like the commonwealth plan, and those who do not are split between Ferre's Statehood Party and the diehard Independence Party. With that advantage, Munoz Marin had little reason...
...world. To see that he did, the King gave the young man a royal scholarship, sent him to Italy for study and experience. Christoff fled to Salzburg when the Germans occupied Italy ("not wanting to get in any kind of a war"), later returned and applied for Italian citizenship and married an Italian girl. In 1946 Christoff made his Rome debut (as Colline in La Bohéme) and three years later achieved Boris, which had been his musical ambition since the time he saw the opera as a child. When the Met's Rudolf Bing invited...
...Supreme Court decision. Their position is one step further removed from reality than the integrationist, who is willing to work within the framework of the Court decision, but who tends to forget some of the complexities of the problem in his enthusaism for ending the Negro's second-class citizenship...
Leslie J. White, secretary of the Texas Colored Teachers State Association, summed up the reactions of most Negro teachers when he recently stated: "Although we may suffer some economic loss in initial phases of the desegragation process, the ultimate gains that will come from elimination of second-class citizenship should be our primary concern...
While these teachers are not necessarily representative of the Negro point of view, they do point out the anxieties many Negro teachers must be facing today. They are torn between a desire to end their second-class citizenship and a desire to keep their jobs...