Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Hamburg on a job for the A.F.L., he decided to stay. "America does not need me," he said. "Germany does." He renounced his U.S. citizenship and was elected mayor of Hamburg. Mayor Brauer's task looked impossible: in three blockbusting nights, British bombers had leveled half the city; 300,000 of its 560,000 dwellings were destroyed, more than in all Britain. Huge mounds in the city cemetery were a memorial to Hamburg's 80,000 air-raid victims; the once-busy harbor lay choked with 3,000 wrecks...
...often turns out to have a long police record, O'Donnell also makes the "serious proposal that any member of a federal, state or county parole board, or any judge who recommends a pardon or commutation of sentence, or any President who springs a federal prisoner or restores citizenship, shall, in the event the convicted criminal commits a crime after his release, be tossed automatically into the jailhouse to serve the same term as that imposed on the criminal he has improperly released...
...past had to be felt, simply and simultaneously, by all Turks. Ataturk looked about for the significant gesture. In India it had been salt-making in defiance of the British monopoly; in China it was cutting off the queue. Ataturk chose to attack the fez, traditional symbol of Ottoman citizenship. "The fez is a sign of ignorance," said he. He laid down a deadline: after that date, no brimless headgear. Some Turks, unable to find hats with brims, wore their wives' hats: better to look silly than to risk losing your head...
College authorities pay homage to the well-publicized Whole Man, and says unabashedly that Colgate is primarily interested in teaching the duties of responsible citizenship. This spirit carries over to the students who revere competence in many fields above unlimited excellence in only one. Since fraternities are clearing houses for social attitudes, it is significant that the mentally hulking football recruit is not overwhelmed with pledge bids come rushing time. But, on the other hand, the pure intellect gets even fewer...
...change, a campaign pledge which President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines has made good, gives women full legal rights of citizenship, notably the vote. The voting privilege will start at 21 for single men or women, at 18 for the married-on the amiable theory that marriage is an indication of maturity. Only one of 40 Senators spoke out against the amendment. "This," cried Aquiles ElorcLy, in a faint echo of the anticlericalism that used to keep Mexican politics at a low boil, "hands the country to the church." None of the other 39 lawmakers seemed to fear that Mexico...