Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very simply that Catholics would rather not send their children to a full-time educational institution that does nothing to teach them the most important thing they have to learn. The religiously neutral school envisaged by the advocates of universal public education is an impossibility. To believe that citizenship can be taught without reference to religion is to believe that religion is unimportant to citizenship; with this Catholies cannot agree. Catholics are far from wishing to turn away, in school or elsewhere, from the constructive elements in the life they share with the rest of the community. They believe, however...
...long been a supply and information depot for the Red guerrillas, he said. "It does not amuse me to punish innocent people," snapped Templer, "but many among you are not innocent. You have information which you are too cowardly to give . . . Have some guts and shoulder the responsibility of citizenship." Templer slapped a 22-hour curfew on the entire village, allowing inhabitants to move about only during the usual midday shopping hours, and cut the rice ration of all but children from 6⅔ to 4 Ibs. per week...
...Such a call imposes an obligation of citizenship on the man so honored. It seems to me, however, that it is an entirely different thing to leave a critical assignment for the purpose of increasing the possibility or probability of such a summons." In other words, Ike will come home and campaign if he gets the G.O.P. nomination-and not before...
Then, after a rather perfunctory harrangue on the benefits duties, etc, of citizenship, the judge retired leaving us once more in the hands of the officials. We were cold to come up to the front of the room, one by one and sign our papers. We were told several times, emphatically, that we must sign our own names--only the three people who had also petitioned to have their names changed could sign different names. One of them, inevitably, was Smith...
Harold F. Brigham, State Librarian of Indiana and president of the Public Libraries Division of the association, said the main basis for the selections was the role each played in public library service to promote "enlightened citizenship and enrich personal life...