Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spurred by quick applause from his audience (more than 1,000 delegates to the sixth annual National Conference on Citizenship), he used his text only as an outline and went on flailing away extemporaneously. He praised General Marshall and the Joint Chiefs, castigated "special interests" seeking to evade price controls, and people he called "pullbacks," who seek to cut down defense expenditures. With his voice heavy with sarcasm, he lambasted Robert Taft...
When he said: "Although my public life is now closed . . ." he was interrupted by cries of "No!" "It is closed," he went on, but "I feel my responsibility of national citizenship no less deeply ... I shall continue to fight against that greatest scourge of mankind, Communism, as long as God gives me the power to fight...
Recently, however, several things have puzzled and confused him. Carefully calculating the number of $90 rooms in each House, the number of "cums" in each field of concentration, and the most fool proofway of establishing foreign citizenship-he has not seen the posters nor heard the ticket hucksters advertise his Spring Dance. Only fifteen tickets were sold, so last Saturday's affair was called...
...Negroes in the House, whose face bears scars from combat in World War I. "How long, how long, my confreres and gentlemen from the South," Dawson cried, "will you divide us Americans on account of color . . . Deny to me, if you will, all that American citizenship stands for. I will still fight for you. Why will this body go on record to brand this section of citizens second class?" He sat down to thundering applause from both sides of the House, including some from Southern Democrats. When it came to a final vote, the segregation move was defeated...
...Abilene, Texas, with ten other immigrants, Irish-born Greer Garson (now Mrs. Elijah E. Fogelson) took her final oath of U.S. citizenship with tears streaming down her face. "I am so happy about being an American now," she said, and explained the tears. Just before the ceremony, she had stopped to wash a cinder from her right eye. Reaching for some eye lotion, she grabbed the wrong bottle, gave her eye a burning bath of perfume...