Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since its inception, the Window Shop has continued to welcome these displaced persons, many of whom began work unable to speak English. Channeled in by church groups and welfare agencies, immigrants spent in this store the years needed to gain citizenship. Here, a combination of German and English helped case them into the American culture. Transforming lawyer to chef, college student to salesgirl, for some the shop was merely an orientation center; but many have remained there permanently...
...diocese of the Istanbul Patriarchate, needed a steady hand and a good brain to untangle a snarl of jealousy and intrigue into which the church had fallen, Aristoklis Spytbu, now Athenagoras, was the answer. He became archbishop primate of North and South America, and eventually gave up the Greek citizenship he had acquired to become a U.S. citizen...
Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R0Me.) is sponsor of a bill that calls for the abrogation of citizenship of people convicted under the Smith Act, and the President endorsed this action in his State of the Union address...
...remove a person's citizenship would not deprive him of very much, McCabe pointed out. Aliens in this country still have protection under our laws and recourse to our courts. The only things they don't have are the right to vote, which they would not have anyway as felons convicted under the Smith Act, and the right to re-enter this country freely. In practice, felons have a difficult time maintaining this latter privilege...
While loss of citizenship does not put a person outside the law, as in feudal times when he was placed "outside the King's peace," such removal does carry a stigma. As such it is similar to punishments for crimes...