Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavyweight championship in the 1930s, had turned his acting talents to the movies after a moneymaking postwar wrestling career, is currently performing (but not starring) in Casanova's Big Night and Prince Valiant. To make things complete, he and his Italian wife have just picked up their U.S. citizenship papers in Los Angeles...
...accredited high-school diploma. She also landed a job as one of the paid, part-time staff members of the Star, the community news magazine. Now, Joey hopes to study shorthand, bookkeeping and journalism. She also hopes to achieve her greatest ambition: permanent residence in the U.S. and U.S. citizenship...
...recent weeks that hope has been shadowed by the possibility of deportation, since her temporary visa has expired. Last year two special bills to grant her citizenship died in committee when the 82nd Congress adjourned. And a fortnight ago, an Immigration Service official ordered Joey to leave the country, but gave her the privilege of voluntary departure. Last week. however, Joey's future was brightened again. Immigration officials in Washington promised that no action toward her deportation would be taken for several months. That will give Congress time to consider another private bill granting her permanent U.S. residence...
...Twice-married Crooner Dick Haymes, 34, was in trouble with the U.S. Immigration Department because he followed thrice-married Rita to Hawaii last May. Possible punishment: deportation. A "neutral alien," born in Argentina (of Scottish-Irish parents), Haymes entered the U.S. in 1937. He forfeited his right to U.S. citizenship in 1944, the Government said, by claiming exemption from the draft, and thus re-entered the country illegally when he returned from his romantic pursuit of the rollicking Rita. A "technicality," retorted Haymes, who learned that both his estranged wife and Rita were, as the tabloids said, "ready to stand...
Paris was shocked, but many saw the problem in its real light. "Pilgrims of hunger," said the conservative Le Monde, "to whom we granted full citizenship seven years ago . . . Why do they come to France? Simply because they cannot feed themselves and their families in Algeria." Said Paris-Presse: "We must take care of them on a social scale, unless we want to take care of them on a criminal scale later." While the newspapers discussed improved housing and job training, les Bicots drew back into the old, dark, protective alleyways of Paris...