Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing conformity around the country or on the attempt of worried legislators to fight indoctrination without under-standing basic issues, it remains that the Alabama legislature did pass Act 888, and it remained on the books almost a year. There can be no sharper warning for alert citizenship than this...
...responsibilities of citizenship...
...will be remembered as long as I live. You cannot imagine the feeling I experienced when I first learned of the . . . decision . . . To me . . . it means that I am one step closer to losing what I consider my "second-class" citizenship. Let us hope that those affected will accept what is right with calm and courage...
...easygoing Malays (who dominate the politics), except in a sense of common patriotism. To break down the color bar, Templer forced the diehard British to open their posh clubs to men of all races. To give the Chinese a stake in the country, he pressed for (and got) common citizenship, entitling the Chinese to vote. The Malays, appalled, called Templer pro-Chinese, but he turned round and slapped on a tax that hit the wealthy Chinese hard. They called him pro-Malay...
...fact that he had uncovered a spy high up in Truman's Treasury Department. Brownell followed this exposure with requests for "new and powerful constitutional weapons" to fight subversion. They included death for peacetime espionage, provisions for compulsory testimony before government tribunals, the right to deprive communists of citizenship and the ability to dismiss them from defense plants. Appearing on television, he claimed credit for jailing 36 Communist party members under the Smith Act but neglected to say that Truman, with much less fanfare, had jailed over...