Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rubinstein arrived in the U.S. with a Portuguese passport which he had obtained in Shanghai for $2,000. He swore later that he was the bastard result of a premarital liaison between his mother, a Portuguese citizen (she was not) and his father, and was therefore entitled to citizenship under a Portuguese law protecting the love children of natives. Brother André promptly sued for defamation of their mother's character...
...Austrian Empire's army and a comrade-in-arms to Austria's President Theodor Korner. A cultivated man, Dr. Sokolowski speaks excellent Russian, German, Polish, French and English, a valuable asset in a city quartered between four languages. For his services to Austria, he got Austrian citizenship in 1945, became chief interpreter for the Vienna city council...
Guatemala's deposed President Jacobo Arbenz arrived last week with his family at Zermatt, five miles from Switzerland's Matterhorn, and announced that he was negotiating for recognition of his Swiss citizenship. His father operated a drug-store in the village of Andelfingen until he left for Guatemala in 1899, and was indisputably Swiss. Under the laws of the little democracy, no descendant of a Swiss loses his right to citizenship unless he specifically renounces it - not even foreign Presidents.* Once he gets his Swiss passport, Arbenz will be able to bounce freely around the world, something that...
Largely as a result of his efforts, their citizenship was revoked, and the ring broken...
...such headlines as: ARREST THESE FOUR MEN. THEY ARE THE EMPERORS OF A VICE EMPIRE IN THE HEART OF LONDON. Webb doggedly traced their careers through France and Italy, turned over his information to Scotland Yard, including evidence that some of the brothers had falsified records to get British citizenship...